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ea0003p121 | Endocrine Tumours and Neoplasia | BES2002

High resolution allelotyping of adenomas identifies novel regions of genetic loss

Simpson D , Buch H , Bicknell E , Cutty S , Clayton R , Farrell W

Candidate gene approaches have identified loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at putative tumour suppressor gene (TSG) loci in sporadic pituitary tumours. This study reports a high-resolution genome wide allelotyping in a large cohort of somatotrophinomas and non-functioning pituitary adenomas (NFA). Samples were first subjected to whole genome amplification by primer extension amplification (PEP) to circumvent limitation imposed by insufficient DNA for the whole genome analysis with...