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15809725

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-4-5
pubmed:abstractText
Neuroblastoma is a unique tumor that occurs during childhood. Tumors in infants less than one year of age often regress spontaneously and usually have an excellent prognosis, whereas those in older patients are aggressive, leading to a fatal outcome. To shed light on these unique aspects of this tumor, we investigated the clonality of neuroblastomas by analyzing the inactivation patterns through methylation of the human androgen receptor gene on the X chromosomes in female patients. Neuroblastoma tissue samples were obtained from 12 patients, including 10 patients less than one year of age with tumors at stage 1, 2 or 4S and 2 older patients with stage 4 tumors. Except for 3 uninformative samples of infants, all the informative samples unexpectedly exhibited random methylation pattern, and tumor tissues purified with microdissection technique exhibited the same results. These data indicate that neuroblastomas examined are polyclonal in origin, an unusual finding for a neoplasm, which might be relevant to the unique aspects of neuroblastoma.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
1019-6439
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
26
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1329-35
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Clonality analysis of childhood neuroblastoma by polymerase chain reaction for the human androgen receptor gene.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Clinical Laboratory, National Children's Hospital, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-8509, Japan.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't