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Sixty-eight frozen human breast tissue specimens were evaluated by LCM, qPCR and IHC, including 31 primary tumors of infiltrating ductal carcinomas (22 primary tumors with metastasis and nine primary tumors without known metastasis), 22 matched nodal metastases, 10 fibroadenomas and five normal breast tissues (obtained from reduction mammoplasty).
BMP4 has been implicated in ductal budding and branching during prostate development [ 24 ] and a potential role of BMP4 in external genital development has also been postulated [ 25 ] . DWnt2 has been found to have roles in sex-specific cell determination in the gonads and genital disc of Drosophila [ 26 ] . Thus, mutations in genes characteristically expressed in normal male foreskin fibroblasts can, in some cases, lead to defective genital development.
Fifty-three of 55 single sections from Pten +/+ glands that were free of a palpable mass did not show any lesions more advanced than ductal hyperplasia.
In the study set, eight out of 36 (22%) of the slides showed histologic evidence of hyperplasia, one out of 36 had a ductal carcinoma in situ (mammary intraepithelial neoplasia [ 22]), and one out of 36 had a carcinoma.
Among the 175 cases, all contained non-invasive lesions, including ductal and lobular carcinoma in situ and sclerosing adenosis, and a few cases had invasive components.