“…Deletions of the long arm of chromosome 6 (6q) are one of the most common chromosomal abnormalities observed in various human solid (Orphanos et al, 1995;Noviello et al, 1996;Theile et al, 1996;Makino et al, 2001;Piao et al, 2001) and lymphoid malignancies (Gerard et al, 1997;Sherratt et al, 1997;Tien et al, 1997;Wong et al, 1997;Hauptschein et al, 1998;Merup et al, 1998;Amiel et al, 1999;Stilgenbauer et al, 1999;Sinclair et al, 2000;Mancini et al, 2002). Many subchromosomal regions from 6q13 to q27 have been suggested to harbour putative tumour suppressor genes for different types of tumours, examples being 6q14-21 in prostate cancer (Cooney et al, 1996), 6q16-q21 in lymphoid leukaemia (Jackson et al, 1998(Jackson et al, , 2000, 6q23.3-q25 in breast cancer, and 6q27 in B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) (Hauptschein et al, 1998) and ovarian cancers (Saito et al, 1996).…”