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Converging points of evidence implicate infection by high-risk human papilloma virus (HPV) types as a critical etiologic factor in cervical tumorigenesis [ 1 ] . Epidemiological and experimental data, however, show that only a small fraction of HPV-infected cervical intraepithelial neoplastic (CIN) lesions progress to invasive cervical carcinoma (CC) [ 2 ] . These findings suggest somatic genetic mutations play a critical role in the initiation and progression of CC.
More likely, fibroblasts in culture undergo random modification of gene expression, by somatic mutations or epigenetic regulation, and such rare events may be amplified in single-cell derived clones.
More importantly, advancing the age of first estrus by pheromone exposure was accompanied by an apparent acceleration of somatic growth such that this critical body mass was reached at a younger age.
Although somatic mutations in the gene have been detected in only about 1% of breast cancers, loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at the PTEN locus (10q23) is frequently found (approximately 40%), and 33% of breast tumors have no detectable, or reduced, levels of the protein product [ 18, 19, 20, 21, 22].
When bovine somatic cells were transferred into preactivated recipient oocytes, the resulting reconstructed embryo development was limited, since all embryos arrested at the 8-cell stage regardless of the cell cycle of the donor cells [ 14].