The N-terminal domain of the retinoblastoma (Rb) tumor suppressor protein (RbN) harbors in-frame exon deletions in partially penetrant hereditary retinoblastomas and is known to impair cell growth and tumorigenesis.
Germline loss of function mutations in tumor suppressor genes RB1 and LKB1/STK11 are associated with the autosomal dominant cancer predisposing syndromes familial retinoblastoma and Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), respectively.
In contrast, the relative amounts of hMSH2 or RB1 mRNAs carrying premature termination codons were significantly reduced compared with those of wild-type mRNAs in lymphocytes from carriers of hereditary, nonpolyposis, colorectal cancer and hereditary retinoblastoma.
Frequent constitutional C to T mutations in CGA-arginine codons in the RB1 gene produce premature stop codons in patients with bilateral (hereditary) retinoblastoma.
We further analyzed this parental age factor by measuring the relative risk of age groups and comparing the incidence of sporadic hereditary retinoblastoma in the various parental age groups with the incidence of sporadic hereditary retinoblastoma in the total population.
Erratum to: "Monoallelic germline methylation and sequence variant in the promoter of the RB1 gene: a possible constitutive epimutation in hereditary retinoblastoma".
"Monoallelic germline methylation and sequence variant in the promoter of the RB1 gene: a possible constitutive epimutation in hereditary retinoblastoma".
Complementary constitutional chromosome and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) analyses of RB1 gene were applied in cases where hereditary retinoblastoma was suspected despite negative detection.
Hereditary retinoblastoma constitutes a cancer predisposition syndrome: a subject constitutionally carrying an RB1 gene mutation has a greater than 90% risk of developing retinoblastoma but is also at increased risk of developing other types of cancers.Diagnosis is made by fundoscopy.
This paper reports the first clinical experience of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for hereditary retinoblastoma using two highly polymorphic microsatellite markers RB1.20 and D13S284, located within and close to the RB1 gene respectively.
Our data indicate that lipoma predisposition in hereditary retinoblastoma is not associated with specific RB1 gene mutations but is influenced by modifying factors linked to this gene.