Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on April 24, 2003
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Carcinogenesis, Vol. 24, No. 6, 1143-1148,
June 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
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Outbred CD-1 mice carry the susceptibility allele at the pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) locus
The sequence data of D6Int38 are available from GenBank under accession number AY273192
Department of Experimental Oncology, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Via G. Venezian 1, I-20133 Milan, Italy
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed Email: dragani{at}istitutotumori.mi.it
CD-1 is the outbred mouse line most often used in toxicology and carcinogenicity bioassays. A literature survey revealed a relatively high (21.8%) incidence of spontaneous lung tumors in these mice, and a susceptibility to lung tumorigenesis induced by vinyl chloride, styrene or benzene inhalation that is not seen in B6C3F1 or C57BL/6 mice, or in rats and hamsters. As the pulmonary adenoma susceptibility 1 (Pas1) locus is the major determinant of genetic susceptibility to lung tumorigenesis in mice, we analyzed CD-1 mice for genetic polymorphisms of the Kras2 and Pthlh genes, which are tightly linked with the Pas1 locus. From 95 to 98% of CD-1 mice carried the susceptibility allele at the Pas1 locus either at homozygosity or heterozygosity, providing a molecular genetic explanation for the high susceptibility of CD-1 mice to spontaneous and chemically induced lung tumorigenesis. These results may have implications for the risk assessment of chemicals in humans using experimental animals that display strain-specific lung tumorigenicity.
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