Concurrent Sessions

Sunday, May 7, 2006, 15.00 - 16.30 hrs - Room A

C04. Cancer genetics

C22 Defective oxidative phosphorylation in thyroid oncocytoma is associated with pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations affecting complexes I and III.
E. Bonora¹, G. Gasparre¹, A. Porcelli², A. Biondi³, A. Ghelli², V. Carelli⁴, A. Baracca³, G. Tallini⁵, A. Martinuzzi⁶, M. Rugolo², G. Romeo¹;
¹Unit of Medical Genetics-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ²Dept of Biology-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ³Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ⁴Dept of Neurology-University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ⁵Dept of Anatomy- University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, ⁶Istituto Scientifico E. medea, Conegliano Veneto, Italy.

C23. Aggressive fibromatosis, pathways that cross-talk with Wnt signaling
S. Amini Nik, K. Van Dam, R. PourEbrahim, H. Xavier Zambrano Manrique, S. Tejpar, J. J. Cassiman;
University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

C24. Genome-wide analysis to unravel the molecular mechanisms behind vitamin D resistance
J. L. Costa¹, P. Eijk¹, M. Tijssen¹, J. Narvaez², J. Welsh², B. Ylstra¹;
¹VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, ²University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States.

C25. The major epigenetic effect of the histone deacetylase inhibitor butyrate is a paradoxical decrease in promoter histone acetylation and decrease in gene activity.
A. Rada-Iglesias¹, A. Ameur², S. Enroth², C. Koch³, N. Carter³, D. Vetrie³, I. Dunham³, J. Komorowski², C. Wadelius¹;
¹Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala, Sweden, ²Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics, Uppsala, Sweden, ³Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

C26. Birt-Hogg-Dube : A syndrome the geneticist should know
C. D. DeLozier^1,2, T. Treisman¹, Y. Chang³, D. Tashjian⁴, T. McCalmont⁵, C. J. Curry^1,6;
¹Genetic Medicine Central California, Fresno, CA, United States, ²Kaiser Permanente Genetics, Fresno, CA, United States, ³Kaiser Permanente Urology, Fresno, CA, United States, ⁴Dermatology Associates, Fresno, CA, United States, ⁵Dermatopathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States, ⁶University of California San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States.

C27. Identification of methylation and expression abnormalities associated with breast cancer
V. V. Strelnikov^1,2, E. B. Kuznetsova¹, M. V. Nemtsova^1,2, D. V. Zaletayev^1,2;
¹Molecular Medicine Institute, I.M.Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russian Federation, ²Research Centre for Medical Genetics, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation.