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Karyotype pecularities of human colorectal adenocarcinomas

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The data of the chromosome abnormalities in 15 colorectal tumors are presented. Rearrangements of the short arm of chromosome 17, leading to deletions of this arm or its part were noted in 12 tumors; in 2 other cases, one of the homologs of pair 17 was lost. The losses of at least one homolog of other chromosomal pairs were also found: chromosome 18, in 12 out of 13 cases with fully identified numerical abnormalities; chromosome 5, in 6 tumors; chromosome 21, in 5 cases; chromosomes 4, 15, and 22, in 4 cases each. Additional homologs of pair 20 were observed in 6 tumors, extra 8q was found in 5 tumors, and extra 13q in 6 cases. Rearrangements of the short arm of chromosome 1 and the long arm of chromosome 11 characterized 6 tumors each. The data recorded in our series differ from the data of other authors in two respects: the high incidence of the loss of sex chromosomes and the rearrangements of the long arm of chromosome 9. X chromosomes were missing in 4 out of 7 tumors in females, and Y chromosomes were absent in 5 out of 8 tumors in males. The long arm of chromosome 9 was rearranged in 8 cases, in 5 of them the breakpoint being at 9q22. Cytological manifestations of gene amplification (double minutes or multiple microchromosomes) were noted in 6 tumors.

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  1. Cytogenetic Laboratory, Institute of Carcinogenesis, Kashirskoye shosse 24, 115478, Moscow, USSR

    L. N. Konstantinova, E. W. Fleischman & B. P. Kopnin

  2. Institute of Clinical Oncology, All-Union Cancer Research Center AMS of the USSR, Kashirskoye shosse 24, 115478, Moscow, USSR

    V. I. Knisch & A. G. Perevozchikov

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Konstantinova, L.N., Fleischman, E.W., Knisch, V.I. et al. Karyotype pecularities of human colorectal adenocarcinomas. Hum Genet 86, 491–496 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00194640

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