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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-2-12
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
In a series of 46 glioblastomas, 16 anaplastic astrocytomas and eight astrocytomas, all tumours retaining one or both alleles of CDKN2A (48 tumours) and CDKN2B (49 tumours) were subjected to sequence analysis (entire coding region and splice acceptor and donor sites). One glioblastoma with hemizygous deletion of CDKN2A showed a missense mutation in exon 2 (codon 83) that would result in the substitution of tyrosine for histidine in the protein. None of the tumours retaining alleles of CDKN2B showed mutations of this gene. Glioblastomas with retention of both alleles of CDKN2A (14 tumours) and CDKN2B (16 tumours) expressed transcripts for these genes. In contrast, 7/13 glioblastomas with hemizygous deletions of CDKN2A and 8/11 glioblastomas with hemizygous deletions of CDKN2B showed no or weak expression. Anaplastic astrocytomas and astrocytomas showed a considerable variation in the expression of both genes, regardless of whether they retained one or two copies of the genes. The methylation status of the 5' CpG island of the CDKN2A gene was studied in all 15 tumours retaining only one allele of CDKN2A as well as in the six tumours showing no significant expression of transcript despite their retaining both CDKN2A alleles. Three tumours (one of each malignancy grade studied) were found to have partially methylated the 5' CpG island of CDKN2A. It appears that in human astrocytic gliomas point mutations of the CDKN2A and CDKN2B genes are uncommon and hypermethylation of the 5' CpG region of CDKN2A does not appear to be a major mechanism for inhibiting transcription of this gene.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0007-0920
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
75
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
2-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Infrequent methylation of CDKN2A(MTS1/p16) and rare mutation of both CDKN2A and CDKN2B(MTS2/p15) in primary astrocytic tumours.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Oncology and Pathology, Division of Tumour Pathology, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't