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Genetic aberrations detected by comparative genomic hybridization in hepatocellular carcinomas: Their relationship to clinicopathological features
Author(s) -
Kusano Noriyoshi,
Shiraishi Kei,
Kubo Keiko,
Oga Atsunori,
Okita Kiwamu,
Sasaki Kohsuke
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
hepatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.488
H-Index - 361
eISSN - 1527-3350
pISSN - 0270-9139
DOI - 10.1002/hep.510290636
Subject(s) - hccs , hepatocellular carcinoma , comparative genomic hybridization , carcinogenesis , biology , hepatitis c virus , hepatitis b virus , in situ hybridization , virus , pathology , cancer research , medicine , virology , cancer , genetics , genome , gene , gene expression
To elucidate cytogenetic alterations underlying human hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs), we used a comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) method to analyze 41 cases of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) including 15 well differentiated HCCs, 14 moderately differentiated HCCs, and 12 poorly differentiated HCCs. Of these, 27 patients were chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and the remaining patients were positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV). The most common sites of increase in DNA copy number were 1q (78% of the cases) and 8q (66%) with minimal overlapping regions at 1q24‐25 and 8q24, respectively. Frequent decreases in copy number were observed at 17p (51%), 16q (46%), 13q13‐14 (37%), 4q13‐22 (32%), 8p (29%), and 10q (17%). In 6 cases (15%), an amplification was found in the region of 11q13. A gain of 8q24 was significantly associated with well‐differentiated HCCs ( P <.05), whereas a loss of 13q13‐14 and amplification of 11q13 were linked to moderately and poorly differentiated HCCs ( P <.01). These observations suggest that a gain of 8q24 is an early event and that a loss of 13q13‐14 and amplification of 11q13 are a late event in the course of liver carcinogenesis. A gain of 10q (7/41) was detected exclusively in cases with HCV infection. In contrast, an amplification of 11q13 was preferentially found in HBV‐positive HCCs. These findings raise the hypothesis that, although many genetic alterations are basically common to both HCV–positive and HBV–positive tumors, the process of carcinogenesis may be to some extent different between these two types of tumors.