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In support of this notion, the p27 protein has been identified as a target of viral oncoproteins [ 5 6 ] . However, unlike traditional tumor suppressors, the p27 gene rarely shows homozygous inactivation in cancer cells [ 7 8 9 ] , a finding that points towards alternative mechanisms of p27 inactivation.
Other methodologies such as forced RFLP and sequencing of multiple cloned products could be applied to determine if these mutations are homozygous or heterozygous.
However, similar levels of p21 mRNA in the livers of wild-type and homozygous C/EBPα knock-out mice [ 22 ] argue against a physiologically significant contribution of C/EBPα to p21 gene transcription in the liver.
Of these, 6 individuals (3 affected and 3 normal) were homozygous CC (exon 17), 15 (11 affected and 4 normal) were heterozygous TC (exon 17) and three were heterozygous AG (exon 23).
In this case, >90% of homozygotes in the population will be homozygous for a susceptible allele, since the frequency of SS homozygotes is Θ = 0.25, while the frequency of RR homozygotes is Π = 0.025.