Loss of the 17p Chromosomal Region in a Metastatic Carcinoma of the Prostate
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 147 (4), 1142-1146
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)37504-3
Abstract
Genetic alterations of multiple loci that serve as markers for the induction and progression of disease have been identified in several adenocarcinomas, but not in adenocarcinoma of the prostate. To determine if similar genetic alterations occur in prostate carcinoma and could serve as markers for the extent of clinical disease, we have examined 23 predominantly moderately-differentiated, localized prostate carcinomas and one prostatic dysplasia for changes in the structure and copy number of ten selected genes. These genes include 1) those important to androgen metabolism in the prostate, the androgen receptor and steroid 5 alpha reductase genes; 2) those that map to the 10q (PLAU) and 7q (MET) chromosomal regions found deleted in some prostate carcinomas, and 3) proto-oncogenes (ERBB2, INT2, and MYC) and tumor suppressor gene loci (RB1, TP53 and D17S5) found altered in adenocarcinomas of the breast, colon and lung. Gene alterations were detected in one specimen, a lymph node metastasis from a poorly differentiated tumor. This specimen exhibited loss of heterozygosity for two loci putatively active in tumor suppression, TP53 and D17S5, on the short arm of chromosome 17. This study indicates that gross genetic alterations were not evident and could not be used as markers of tumor development in well- or moderately-differentiated, localized lesions, but that loss of the 17p region may be a useful marker for advanced carcinomas in the prostate.Keywords
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