Loss of Heterozygosity Associated with Uniparental Disomy in Breast Carcinoma

Genome-wide loss of heterozygosity and uniparental disomy in BRCA1/2-associated ovarian carcinomas.

PURPOSE The importance of the BRCA gene products in maintaining genomic stability led us to hypothesize that BRCA-associated and sporadic ovarian cancers would have distinctive genetic profiles despite similarities in histologic appearance. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN A whole-genome copy number analysis of fresh, frozen, papillary serous ovarian cancer DNA was done using the Affymetrix 50K Xba Mappin...

Reciprocal uniparental disomy in yeast.

In the diploid cells of most organisms, including humans, each chromosome is usually distinguishable from its partner homolog by multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms. One common type of genetic alteration observed in tumor cells is uniparental disomy (UPD), in which a pair of homologous chromosomes are derived from a single parent, resulting in loss of heterozygosity for all single-nucleoti...

Multipoint genetic mapping with uniparental disomy data.

Uniparental disomy (UPD) refers to the presence of two copies of a chromosome from one parent and none from the other parent. In genetic studies of UPDs, many genetic markers are usually used to identify the stage of nondisjunction that leads to UPD and to uncover the associated unusual patterns of recombinations. However, genetic information in such data has not been fully utilized because of ...

Uniparental disomy and prenatal phenotype

RATIONALE Uniparental disomy (UPD) gives a description of the inheritance of both homologues of a chromosome pair from the same parent. The consequences of UPD depend on the specific chromosome/segment involved and its parental origin. PATIENT CONCERNS We report prenatal phenotypes of 2 rare cases of UPD. DIAGNOSES The prenatal phenotype of case 1 included sonographic markers such as enlarg...

Maternal Uniparental Disomy of Human Chromosome 7