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Genes, Chromosomes & Cancer

Publication date: 1997-09-01
Volume: 20 Pages: 90 -
Publisher: Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Author:

Dal Cin, Paola
Wanschura, S ; Christiaens, Rose ; Van den Berghe, I ; Moerman, Philippe ; Polito, P ; Kazmierczak, B ; Bullerdiek, J ; Van den Berghe, Herman

Keywords:

Breast Diseases, Chromosome Banding, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 6, Female, Gene Rearrangement, HMGA1a Protein, Hamartoma, High Mobility Group Proteins, Humans, In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence, Middle Aged, Translocation, Genetic, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Oncology, Genetics & Heredity, ABERRATION, REGION, MAR, 1112 Oncology and Carcinogenesis, Oncology & Carcinogenesis, 3105 Genetics, 3211 Oncology and carcinogenesis

Abstract:

The first description of involvement of 6p21 and rearrangement of HMGIY in a hamartoma of the breast is in keeping with the emerging role of HMG genes in benign mesenchymal tumors.