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cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (SCC) are the second most commonly diagnosed cancers in fair-skinned people.

Allelotyping

- 9p LOH
- 3p LOH
- 9 LOH
- 2q LOH
- 8p LOH
- 13 LOH

Allelic gain

- 3q AG
- 8q AG

-copy number-neutral LOH

- homozygous microdeletion on 9p23 at the protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type D (PTPRD) locus

References

- Purdie KJ, Lambert SR, Teh MT, Chaplin T, Molloy G, Raghavan M, Kelsell DP, Leigh IM, Harwood CA, Proby CM, Young BD. Allelic imbalances and microdeletions affecting the PTPRD gene in cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas detected using single nucleotide polymorphism microarray analysis. Genes Chromosomes Cancer. 2007 Jul;46(7):661-9. PMID: 17420988

- Lima-Bessa KM, Menck CF. Skin cancer: lights on genome lesions. Curr Biol. 2005 Jan 26;15(2):R58-61. PMID: 15668158