“…Abnormalities on the short arm of human chromosome 1 (1p) were frequently observed in NBs and were associated with a poor prognosis (Brodeur et al, 1981;Hayashi et al, 1989). Recent molecular studies have shown that a relatively high rate of loss of heterozygosity (LOH) is observed in 1p as well as in 2q, 9p, 11q, 14q, and 18q in NB (Cheng et al, 1995;Takita et al, 1995Takita et al, , 1997Takita et al, , 2000Caron et al, 1996;Schwab et al, 1996;White et al, 1997;Hoshi et al, 2000). The distribution of LOH of 1p is not random among NBs, suggesting the presence of at least two putative tumor suppressor genes in this region (Schleiermacher et al, 1994;Takeda et al, 1994;Caron et al, 1995).…”