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Human primary breast carcinoma is thought to develop through progressive change from hyperplasia to in situ carcinoma and eventually to invasive cancer. In this study, tissue microdissection was be used to examine the microsatellite alteration, including microsatellite instability (MI) and loss ofheterzygosity (LOH), in ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC), as compared to normal breast tissue from same patients. Four microsatellite markers were used to investigate 30 cases, including ten DCIS and twenty IDC. The incidence of MI and LOH was perfonnanced by comparing PCR-amplified sequence from paraffin-embedded samples. This analysis showed that 37.9% (11/29) of breast cancers exhibit MI(+). Ml(+) was detected in 20% (2/10) of DCIS and in 47.4% (9/19) in IDC. The frequency of MI in IDC is higher than that in DCIS. In addition, MI significantly correlated with clinicopathological features, including tumor size (p=0.004), stage (p<0.001) and progesterone receptor (PR; p<0.01), but no significant correlation with age, lymph node involvement, grade, estrogen receptor (ER) and p53. The results also showed a trend of low expressing PR and p53 observed associating with MI. In the detection of LOH, the analysis showed that 10.3% in D11S905, 11% in D11S912, 17.2% in D11S934 and zero in D11S935. The results showed that 27% of the tumors exhibited LOH at llp23.3-24 region between loci D11S934 and D11S912 with IDC predominantly. Our results suggest that breast carcinomas acquire the replication error (RER) phenotype in the relatively late stages, and that the RER phenotype is associated with aggressiveness of IDC. The result also implicated mismatch repair failure can alter the expression of PR.
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