The expression of tumour suppressors and proto-oncogenes in tissues susceptible to their hereditary cancers.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies of familial cancers have found that only a small subset of tissues are affected by inherited mutations in a given tumour suppressor gene (TSG) or proto-oncogene (POG), even though the mutation is present in all tissues. Previous tests have shown that tissue specificity is not due to the presence vs absence of gene expression, as TSGs and POGs are expressed in nearly every type of normal human tissue. Using published microarray expression data we tested the related hypothesis that tissue-specific expression of a TSG or POG is highest in tissue where it is of oncogenic importance.

Methods

We tested this hypothesis by examining whether individual TSGs and POGs had higher expression in the normal (noncancerous) tissues where they are implicated in familial can

SUBMITTER: Muir B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4506389 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature