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From the Department of Pathology,* Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid; and the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas,
Madrid, Spain
The p16INK4a and p15INK4b 5' CpG island hypermethylation has been described as one of the most frequent mechanisms leading to inactivation of these tumor suppressor genes in hematological malignancies. The p16 and p15 promoter regions were studied using methylation-specific polymerase chain reaction in 53 CD30 non-Hodgkins lymphomas (25 anaplastic large-cell, 13 peripheral T cell, and 15 anaplastic diffuse large B cell) and 26 Hodgkins lymphomas, with the aim of comparing the methylation status of these tumor suppressor genes in anaplastic large-cell lymphomas and other related entities. p16 and p15 methylation was detected, respectively, in 28% and 60% of CD30 non-Hodgkins lymphomas and in 38% and 42% of Hodgkins neoplasms. This confirms the p16-methylated status in Hodgkins cases described in a single previous study and adds information concerning the p15 gene that was also found to be methylated in this lymphoma subtype. Methylation incidence within cases at diagnosis and at relapse suggests that it is an early event in anaplastic large-cell lymphomas, being involved in tumor progression in Hodgkins cases. Our results show that although p16 and/or p15 methylation is involved in non-Hodgkins and Hodgkins tumors that share morphological and phenotypic features, differences in incidence, pattern of methylation, and implication in tumor progression are observed.
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