Malignant astrocytoma-derived region of common amplification in chromosomal band 17p12 is frequently amplified in high-grade osteosarcomas
✍ Scribed by Theo J. M. Hulsebos; Engelien H. Bijleveld; Niels T. Oskam; Andries Westerveld; Sieger Leenstra; Pancras C. W. Hogendoorn; Johannes Bras
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 107 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1045-2257
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✦ Synopsis
Recently, we reported a new amplification event that involves marker D17S67 in 17p12 in three malignant astrocytomas of patients with a very short survival. The amplified region may contain an oncogene implicated in astrocytoma tumorigenesis. To determine the extent of the amplified regions, we constructed a yeast artificial chromosome contig spanning the D17S67 region and tested the amplification status of markers that map to the contig. We determined a commonly amplified region between markers D17S1311 and D17S1875 with a maximal length of 1,630 kb. By using marker 745R, from within the commonly amplified region, we screened 60 high-grade astrocytomas but could not detect additional tumors with the amplification event. This suggests that the incidence of the amplification event in high-grade astrocytoma is low (5%). It has recently been shown by comparative genomic hybridization that amplification of 17p11-p12 is a frequent event in high-grade osteosarcomas, occurring in 20-30% of cases. Since the commonly amplified region is within 17p12, we tested 745R in 20 osteosarcomas, including 6 lung metastases, and detected amplification in 9 cases (45%). Marker 745R was found to be amplified in 4 of the 6 lung metastases (66%). From this frequent involvement and the association with clinically aggressive astrocytomas we conclude that for both tumor types presence of the amplification event seems to correlate with aggressive clinical behaviour.