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JOURNAL OF KOREAN MEDICAL SCIENCE
卷 15, 期 5, 页码 555-559出版社
KOREAN ACAD MEDICAL SCIENCES
DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2000.15.5.555
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p16; hypermethylation; glioblastoma; immunohistochemistry; methylation specific-PCR study
Recent evidence shows that transcriptional silencing as a consequence of hypermethylation of CpG islands is an important mechanism in the inactivation of p16(INK4a) tumor suppressor gene. This study is designed to clarify the significance of p16(INK4a) hypermethylation in 23 cases of glioblastomas (GBMs) by methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and p16 immunostaining. Fourteen cases (60.9%) out of 23 GBMs revealed hypermethylation on p16. p16 immunostaining revealed that 13 (93%) of these 14 hypermethylation cases showed complete loss of immunoreactivity and only one (7%) case retained immunoreactivity. Among 9 methylation-negative cases, 4 were immunonegative, which might be related to mutations or deletions other than hypermethylation. The most significant finding was that of 17 cases with immunonegativity, 13 cases (76.5%) showed hypermethylation. We reconfirmed that p16 hypermethylation may be one of the major mechanisms of tumorigenesis of GBMs and the results between the methylation specific-PCR study and p16 immunostaining had a good correlation.
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