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Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at several chromosomal loci is a common event in human malignancies. Frequent LOH on the long arm of chromosome 7 has been reported in various human malignancies, and investigators have identified the most common site of LOH as 7q31.1. We have identified ten chromosomal loci, including chromosome 7q, that have been shown by previous allelotype study to be sites of frequent LOH in differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach. In the present study, we performed a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) microsatellite analysis to define the common deleted region on 7q, using 14 polymorphic microsatellite markers in matched tumour and non-tumour DNAs from 53 patients with primary gastric carcinoma of the differentiated type. LOH at any locus on 7q occurred in 34% (18 out of 53) of the tumours. Although many tumours exhibited total or large interstitial deletions, we determined the smallest common deleted region to be at D7S480 (7q31.1). This is identical to the region identified for other human malignancies. These observations indicate that a putative tumour suppressor gene at 7q31.1 may be involved in the pathogenesis of differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach.
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Nishizuka, S., Tamura, G., Terashima, M. et al. Commonly deleted region on the long arm of chromosome 7 in differentiated adenocarcinoma of the stomach. Br J Cancer 76, 1567–1571 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/bjc.1997.598
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