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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 38, 期 13, 页码 1802-1809出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(02)00152-1
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endometrial tumorigenesis; fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH); polymerase chain reaction (PCR); microsatellite analysis; MLH1; MSH2; prognosis
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Defective DNA mismatch repair and nonfunctional mechanisms controlling the proper progression of the cell cycle have been proposed as being responsible for the genomic instability and accumulation of karyotypic alterations in endometrial cancer (EC). To assess whether numerical chromosomal anomalies (aneuploidy) and microsatellite instability (MSI) might be representative of distinctive tumour behaviour, paraffin-em bedded tissue samples from 86 patients with sporadic EC were evaluated by both fluorescence in situ hybridisation (FISH) and microsatellite analysis, using free nuclei and genomic DNAs (respectively). Approximately one-third of the tumours analysed (24/74, 32%) exhibited MSI, whereas 38/86 (44%) of the EC samples displayed aneuploidy. The majority of the unstable cases (15/24; 63%) were from advanced-stage patients. Conversely, 23 (61%) out of the 38 tumours with aneuploidy were from early-stage patients. No apparent correlation was found between MSI and aneuploidy, whereas the immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis revealed that inactivation of the MLH1 mismatch repair gene may be involved in the majority of the MSI + sporadic ECs No genetic or cytogenetic alteration analysed here seems to add any significant predictive value to the stage of disease. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd All rights reserved.
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