a Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
b University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract:
Banded karyotypes from two metastatic sites of a Merkel cell carcinoma were analyzed. The results indicate very close similarity between the two specimens including an overall tendency to triploidy and the same five marker chromosomes. One of the markers represented by two copies in most of the karyotyped cells was 1q−.