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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
15
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-9-30
pubmed:abstractText
Familial predisposition to neuroblastoma, a common embryonal cancer of childhood, segregates as an autosomal dominant trait with high penetrance. It is therefore likely that neuroblastoma susceptibility is due to germ line mutations in a tumor suppressor gene. Cytogenetic, functional, and molecular studies have implicated chromosome band 1p36 as the most likely region to contain a suppressor gene involved in sporadic neuroblastoma tumorigenesis. We now demonstrate that neuroblastoma predisposition does not map to any of eight polymorphic markers spanning 1p36 by linkage analysis in three families. In addition, there is no loss of heterozygosity at any of these markers in tumors from affected members of these kindreds. Furthermore, there is strong evidence against linkage to two Hirschsprung disease (a condition that can cosegregate with neuroblastoma) susceptibility genes, RET and EDNRB. We conclude that the neuroblastoma susceptibility gene is distinct from the 1p36 tumor suppressor and the currently identified Hirschsprung disease susceptibility genes.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0008-5472
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
56
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
3421-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Child, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Chromosome Banding, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Chromosome Mapping, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Disease Susceptibility, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Family Health, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Female, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Gene Deletion, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Germ-Line Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Heterozygote, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Hirschsprung Disease, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Infant, Newborn, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Male, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Neuroblastoma, pubmed-meshheading:8758905-Pedigree
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Familial predisposition to neuroblastoma does not map to chromosome band 1p36.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Oncology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.