Expression of recessive alleles by chromosomal mechanisms in retinoblastoma
- 27 October 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 305 (5937) , 779-784
- https://doi.org/10.1038/305779a0
Abstract
Inheritance of a mutation at the Rb-1 locus, which has been mapped to band q14 of human chromosome 13, results in predisposition to retinoblastoma. Cloned DNA segments homologous to arbitrary loci of human chromosome 13 and which reveal polymorphic restriction endonuclease recognition sequences, have been used to look for somatic genetic events that might occur during tumorigenesis. A comparison of constitutional and tumour genotypes from several cases indicates that tumorigenesis may result from the development of homozygosity for the mutant allele at the Rb-1 locus. The homozygosity in these cases results from mitotic nondisjunction, resulting in loss of the homologous wild-type chromosome, or from a mitotic recombination event.This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:
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