Loss of heterozygosity and microsatellite instability as predictive markers among Iranian esophageal cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Variation in microsatellite sequences that are dispersed in the genome has been linked to a deficiency in cellular mismatch repair system and defects in several genes of this system are involved in carcinogenesis. Our aim in this study was to illustrate microsatellite DNA alteration in esophageal cancer.

Materials and methods

DNA was extracted from formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues from surgical and matched margin-normal samples. Microsatellite instability (MSI) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) were studied in 50 cases of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) by amplifying six microsatellite markers: D13S260 (13q12.3), D13S267 (13q12.3), D9S171 (9p21), D2S123 (2p), D5S2501 (5q21) and TP53 (17p13.1) analyzed on 6% denaturing polyacrylamide gel ele

SUBMITTER: Forghanifard MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5010844 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature