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Medulloblastoma is the most frequent paediatric brain tumour. Because of the uniform histology, a common genetic mechanism has been postulated. Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) studies support evidence that a candidate gene, which functions as a tumour-suppressor gene, is located in 17p13. Eighteen tumours were examined for loss of heterozygosity at 15 different loci at chromosome 17p. Nine of 18 (50%) tumours had allelic loss in 17p 13.3-13.2. The smallest region of overlap, which harbours the disease gene, includes markers from UT222 (D17S675) to UT49 (D17S731) and spans a region of less than 6 cM. Candidate genes within this region are HIC-1, a potential tumour-suppressor gene, and DPH2L, a gene that has been cloned from the ovarian critical region. The putative region excludes the p53 gene and the ABR gene, which have been favoured by others. LOH of chromosome 17p may be used as a new prognostic biological marker. Children with an allelic loss had a poorer prognosis than those patients without loss of heterozygosity (P<0.05).
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Steichen-Gersdorf, E., Baumgartner, M., Kreczy, A. et al. Deletion mapping on chromosome 17p in medulloblastoma. Br J Cancer 76, 1284–1287 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1997.549
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