PMID: 9554124Apr 29, 1998Paper

Colorectal carcinogenesis, frequency and significance of genetic alterations: deletion of the short arm of chromosome 1, and initiating event

Bulletin de l'Académie nationale de médecine
D Couturier, M H Couturier-Turpin

Abstract

Cytogenetic anomalies described in colo-rectal tumors are numerous. Despite the complexity and the number of the anomalies observed, a combined study of their frequency and of the stage of prognosis of the tumors suggests that the evolution from colonic adenoma to carcinoma often follows a sequence of events comprising a 5q15-22 deletion (DCC), and a 17p deletion (P53). It even seems likely that in many cases, these events are not constant and that others might lead to the same phenotypic transformation. Chromosome 1 involvement in structural rearrangements has been demonstrated in numerous forms of cancers, malignant blood disorders and in solid tumors. In colorectal adenocarcinoma anomalies have been described on short and/or long arms. In a case of adenoma with mild dysplasia a deletion of the distal part of the short arm of chromosome 1 was observed as an isolated cytogenetic anomaly, suggesting it would be an early, perhaps triggering, event for the tumour development. A cytogenetic study in a series of colo-rectal tumours, researches on loss of heterozygosity and microsatellite instability lead to consider deletions at chromosome 1p as an early event in human colorectal tumourigenesis.

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