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Nasopharyngeal carcinoma-susceptibility locus is localized to a 132 kb segment containing HLA-A using high-resolution microsatellite mapping.

Department of Pathology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
International Journal of Cancer (impact factor: 5.44). 08/2005; 115(5):742-6. DOI:10.1002/ijc.20946 pp.742-6
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ABSTRACT Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an epithelial tumor uniquely prevalent in southern Chinese. HLA-A2 is associated with NPC. In a previous study, we showed that the genes associated with susceptibility to NPC are primarily located within the HLA-A locus in Taiwanese NPC patients. However, the pathogenic genes causing NPC susceptibility remain unknown. Here, 8 polymorphic microsatellite markers distributed over a 1 megabase region surrounding the HLA-A locus were subjected to genetic analysis for the NPC-susceptibility locus. Statistical studies of associated alleles detected on each microsatellite locus showed that the NPC- susceptibility genes are most likely located between the D6S510 and D6S211 markers within a 132 kb segment containing the HLA-A locus. These results undoubtedly would facilitate the further positional cloning of the NPC-susceptibility locus, which has been elusive for the past 30 years.

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Keywords

1 megabase region
 
132 kb segment
 
8 polymorphic microsatellite markers
 
epithelial tumor uniquely prevalent
 
genes
 
genetic analysis
 
HLA-A locus
 
HLA-A2
 
NPC
 
NPC susceptibility
 
NPC- susceptibility genes
 
NPC-susceptibility locus
 
pathogenic genes
 
positional cloning
 
southern Chinese
 
Statistical studies
 
Taiwanese NPC patients