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... length from chromosome to chromosome. Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 4) Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is a dominantly inherited colon cancer syndrome due to germline mutations ... dinucleotide repeats in the cancers of HNPCC patients. Figure 79-5 Demonstration of microsatellite instability in normal and tumor tissue from hereditary nonpolyposis colon can...

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... malignancies. Figure 79-2 Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 1) Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 79. Cancer Genetics Cancer Is a Genetic Disease Cancer arises through a series ... consequence of these mutations in tumor cells, is now known as cancer genetics. The Clonal Origin and Multistep Nature of Cancer Nearly all cancers originate from a s...

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... Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 2) General Classes of Cancer Genes There are two major classes of cancer genes. The first class comprises genes ... version states that both copies of a tumor-suppressor gene must be inactivated in cancer. The second class of cancer genes, the caretakers, does not directly affect cell growth but rather affects ... normal function of...

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... 22q12.2 AD Vestibular schwannoma, meningioma, spine Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 3) Familial Cancer Syndromes A small fraction of cancers occur in patients with a genetic predisposition. ... Hereditary breast/ovarian cancer BRC A1 BRC A2 17q21 13q12.3 AD Breast, ovarian, colon, prostate Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer CDH 1 16q22 AD Stomach can...

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... known to be detectable by the assay methods used). Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 5) While most autosomal dominant inherited cancer syndromes are due to mutations in tumor-suppressor ... Mendelian forms of cancer have taught us much about the mechanisms of growth control, most forms of cancer do not follow simple patterns of inheritance. In many instances (e.g.,...

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... progression of cancer. Noncytogenetic, molecular techniques for identifying amplifications have more recently become available. Numerous genes have been reported to be amplified in cancer. Several ... extends to hundreds of thousands of base pairs, more than one oncogene may be amplified in some cancers (particularly sarcomas). Genes simultaneously amplified in many cases include MDM2,...

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... fusion protein with modified function. (Courtesy of ER Fearon and KR Cho.) Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 8) Table 79-3 Representative Oncogenes at Chromosomal Translocations ... (12;22)(q13;q12) Malignant melanoma of soft parts (MMSP) FKHR/ALV(13q 14) rhabdomyosarcoma PAX7 (1p36)– KHR/ALV(13q 14) (1;13)(p36;q 14) Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma RET (10q11.2)...

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... respectively. Viruses are not sufficient for cancer development but constitute one alteration in the multistep process of cancer. Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 9) Chromosomal Instability in ... mutually exclusive in colon cancer, suggesting that they represent alternative mechanisms for the generation of a mutator phenotype in this cancer (Fig. 79-2). Other cancer...

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... Strausberg RL et al: I n silico analysis of cancer through the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project. Trends Cell Biol 11:S66, 2001 Chapter 079. Cancer Genetics (Part 10) Figure 79-8 ... segregation and cancer: Cutting through the mystery. Nat Rev Cancer 1:109, 2001 [PMID: 11905802] Loeb LA: Mutator phenotype may be required for multistage carcinogenesis. Cancer Res...

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... genes) with the presence of a disease or genetic trait (see below). Chapter 062. Principles of Human Genetics (Part 4) Figure 62-2 Flow of genetic information. Multiple extracellular ... xeroderma pigmentosum, Bloom syndrome, ataxia telangiectasia, and hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC), among others. Many of these disorders strongly predispose to neoplasia be...

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