Preferential retention of paternal alleles in human retinoblastoma: evidence for genomic imprinting.

R. J. Leach, A. N. Magewu, J. D. Buckley, W. F. Benedict, C. Rother, A. L. Murphree, S. Griegel, M. F. Rajewsky, P. A. Jones

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Abstract

The origins of the initial mutations in sporadic retinoblastoma were explored using polymorphic markers from chromosome 13q. The paternal chromosome was maintained in 3 of 3 informative bilateral tumors which had undergone reduction to homozygosity for regions of this chromosome. The paternal chromosome was maintained in 7 of 8 informative unilateral tumors which likewise demonstrated a reduction of homozygosity. These data are in contrast to previously published studies of chromosome retention in unilateral retinoblastoma [Dryja, T. P., Mukai, S., Petersen, R., Rapaport, J. M., Walton, D., and Yandel, D. W. Nature (Lond.), 339: 556-558, 1989; Zhu, Z., Dunn, J. M., Phillips, R. A., Goddard, A. D., Paton, K. E., Becker, A., and Gallie, B. L. Nature (Lond.), 340: 312-313, 1989] and provide the first evidence that genomic imprinting may play a role in this disease.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)401-406
Number of pages6
JournalCell growth & differentiation : the molecular biology journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Volume1
Issue number9
StatePublished - 1990
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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