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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 146, 1131-1139, Copyright © 1995 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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c-myc copy number gains in bladder cancer detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization

G Sauter, P Carroll, H Moch, A Kallioniemi, R Kerschmann, P Narayan, MJ Mihatsch and FM Waldman
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.

Amplification and overexpression of c-myc have been suggested as prognostic markers in human cancer. To assess the role of c-myc gene copy number alterations in bladder cancer, 87 bladder tumors were examined for c-myc aberrations by fluorescence in situ hybridization. Dual labeling hybridization with a repetitive pericentromeric probe specific for chromosome 8 and a probe for the c-myc locus (at 8q24) was performed to analyze c-myc copy number in relation to chromosome 8 copy number on a cell by cell basis. A clear-cut c-myc amplification (up to 40 to 150 copies per cell) was found in 3 tumors. There was a low level c-myc copy number increase in 32 of the remaining 84 tumors. There was no association of low level c-myc copy number increase with c-myc protein overexpression. This suggests that a c-myc gene copy number gain as detected by fluorescence in situ hybridization does not necessarily reflect a disturbed c-myc gene function but may indicate a structural chromosome 8 abnormality including gain of distal 8q. The strong association of low level c-myc (8q) gains with tumor grade (P < 0.0001), stage (P < 0.0001), chromosome polysomy (P < 0.0001), p53 protein expression (P = 0.0019), p53 deletion (P = 0.0403), and tumor cell proliferation (Ki67 labeling index; P = 0.0021) is consistent with a role of chromosome 8 alterations in bladder cancer progression.

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