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| Aral,Cenk; Akkiprik,Mustafa; Kaya,Handan; Ataizi-Çelikel,Çigdem; Çaglayan,Sinan; Özisik,Gökhan; Baloglu,Hüseyin; Özer,Ayse. |
| Recently, efforts have been focused on mitochondrial DNA changes and their relation to human cancers. Among them, a 4977 bp deletion of mitochondrial DNA, named "common deletion", has been investigated in several types of tumors, with inconsistent results. In this study, we investigated the presence of the common deletion in tissues from 25 breast, 25 colorectal and 50 thyroid tumors and in the adjacent healthy tissues from Turkish patients. Samples from healthy volunteers were also evaluated for comparison. Two PCR-based methods were used for the detection of the common deletion. First, two pairs of primers were used to amplify wild-type and deleted mtDNA. Then, a highly sensitive nested-PCR was performed, to determine low amounts of deleted genomes. By... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Mitochondrial DNA; Common deletion; Cancer. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572010000100001 |
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