Inventors:
Lin Ji - Sugar Land TX, US
John Dorrance Minna - Dallas TX, US
Jack Roth - Houston TX, US
Michael Lerman - Rockville MD, US
International Classification:
A61K 31/711, A61K 9/127, A61P 35/00, A61K 31/7048, A61K 31/713, C12N 5/09, A61K 33/24
US Classification:
424450, 435325, 514 44 R, 424649, 514 34, 514 32, 514 27, 514 44 A
Abstract:
Tumor suppressor genes play a major role in the pathogenesis of human lung cancer and other cancers. Cytogenetic and allelotyping studies of fresh tumor and tumor-derived cell lines showed that cytogenetic changes and allele loss on the short arm of chromosome 3 (3p) are most frequently involved in about 90% of small cell lung cancers and greater than 50% of non-small cell lung cancers. A group of recessive oncogenes, Fus1, 101F6, Gene 21 (NPRL2), Gene 26 (CACNA2D2), Luca 1 (HYAL1), Luca 2 (HYAL2), PL6, 123F2 (RaSSFI), SEM A3 and Beta* (BLU), as defined by homozygous deletions in lung cancers, have been located and isolated at 3p21.3.