Through allele-segregation and loss-of-heterozygosity analyses, we demonstrated loss of the translocation-derivative chromosome 3 in five independent renal cell tumors of the clear-cell type, obtained from three members of a family in which a constitutional t(2;3)(q35;q21) was encountered. In addition, analysis of the von Hippel-Lindau gene, VHL, revealed distinct insertion, deletion, and substitution mutations in four of the five tumors tested. On the basis of these results, we conclude that, in this familial case, an alternative route for renal cell carcinoma development is implied. In contrast to the first...

B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is a human hematological neoplastic disease often associated with the toss of a chromosome 13 region between RB1 gene and locus D13S25, A new tumor suppressor gene (TSG) may be located in the region. A cosmid contig has been constructed between the Loci D13S1168 (W19598) and D13S25 (H2-42), which corresponds to the minimal region shared by B-CLL associated deletions. The contig includes more than 200 LANL and ICRF cosmid clones covering 620 kb, Three cDNAs likely corresponding to three different genes hare been...

Background: The nodular sclerosis and mixed cellularity subtypes of Hodgkin’s disease are histologically characterised by a small population of neoplastic cells, the so-called Reed-Sternberg cells and their mononuclear variants (RS cells) and an extensive admixture of other cell types including lymphocytes, plasma cells, eosinophils, and histiocytes. The nature of this infiltrate is largely known, but the mechanisms and functional effects are not. The small lymphocytes immediately surrounding the RS cells are mostly CD4+ T cells that express early activation markers. The absence of prominent specific cytotoxic I cell...

Multiple renal cell rumours from three unrelated patients have been analysed for loss of heterozygosity of 3p, mutation of VHL, and chromosome 7 and 17 imbalances, Loss of 3p alleles is characteristic for clear cell type tumours and the combination of +7, +17 for chromophilic cell type rumours. Thus, we could classify adenomas and carcinomas of the three patients according to the genomic patterns of the tumours. Adenomas appeared to be mostly of the chromophilic cell type. In some adenomas, however, allelic losses of chromosome 3 were detected,...