“…Loss of chromosome 14 has been described in meningioma (Katsuyama et al, 1986;Al Saadi et al, 1987), neuroblastoma (Suzuki et al, 1989), Ewing's Sarcoma (Turc-Carel et al, 1988) and Leiomyosarcoma (Boghosian et al, 1989). Furthermore, the description of chromosomal translocations that involve the same cytogenetic band on chromosome 14 suggest that a common genetic locus might be involved in the pathway towards tumorigenesis (Katsuyama et al, 1986;Al Saadi et al, 1987;Seizinger et al, 1987) as well as in other solid tumors such as neuroblastoma (Suzuki et al, 1989;Srivatsan et al, 1991), breast tumors (Gebhart et al, 1986;Bello and Rey, 1989), ovarian tumors (Atkin et al, 1990), astrocytoma (Bigner et al, 1986), retinoblastoma (Chaum et al, 1984) and malignant melanoma (Pedersen and Wang, 1989). One malignant meningioma was identi®ed which showed loss of heterozygosity for the markers D14S13 (pCMM101) and D14S16 (THH37) but retention of heterozygosity for the proximal¯anking marker D14S23 or the distal anking marker D14S23.…”