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© 1995 Oxford University Press

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Microsatellite instability at a single locus (D11S988) on chromosome 11p15.5 as a late event in mammary tumorigenesis

Pratima Karnik*, Sarah Plummer, Graham Casey, Jonathan Myles1, Raymond Tubbs1, Joseph Crowe2 and Bryan R.G. Williams

Department of Cancer Biology, Research Institute 1Department of Anatomic Pathology 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA 2Department of General Surgery and Breast Center, Cleveland Clinic Foundation 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA

*To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received May 18, 1995; Revised July 17, 1995; Accepted July 17, 1995

Replication errors at microsatellite repeats are markers for genomic instability in hereditary nonpolyposis colon carcinoma and in some sporadic cancers. Microsatellite sequences may show alterations in one or both alleles in some tumors, suggesting an error in the DNA replication of dinucleotide repeats. We have investigated microsatellite instability (MSI) in sporadic breast tumors at several loci on the short arm of chromosome 11. Among microsateliltes studied we found a high frequency of MSI at one specific locus, D11S988 on chromosome 11p15.5. Most colorectal tumors that exhibit MSI display abnormalities of at least one other locus and usually more. By contrast we have detected only one abnormal microsatellite in all the tumors examined. This marker lies between the TH and HBB genes, a subregion previously suggested to harbor a putative tumor suppressor gene for breast cancer. Loss of heterozygosity for chromosome markers at 11 p15 has earlier been correlated with poor prognosis. In an unselected panel of primary breast tumors, we observed that 20 of 69 showed mobility shifts of D11S988 in tumor compared with corresponding normal DNA samples. Tumors with instability at D11S988 were rapidly proliferating compared with tumors without MSI. DNA aneuploidy, estrogen receptor positivity and moderate to poorly differentiated tumor phenotype were also characteristics of tumors with MSI at this locus and the majority also exhibited loss of heterozygosity at one or more of the six 11p loci analyzed. Taken together these data suggest that MSI at the D11S988 locus is a late event in mammary tumorigenesis and may be associated with progression of breast carcinomas.


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