Search for Novel Genes in Osteosarcoma Revealed by Analysis of Tumour Copy-Number Alterations and Constitutional Copy-Number Variations
Search for Novel Genes in Osteosarcoma Revealed by Analysis of Tumour Copy-Number Alterations and Constitutional Copy-Number Variations
RATIONALE: Studying samples of blood and tissue from patients with cancer in the laboratory may help doctors learn more about changes that occur in DNA and identify biomarkers related to cancer.
PURPOSE: This research study is studying DNA biomarkers in samples from patients with osteosarcoma and healthy volunteers.
OBJECTIVES:
OUTLINE: RNA and DNA samples from banked blood and paired tumor tissue, plus samples from healthy controls, are analyzed for common copy-number alterations and constitutional copy-number variations (CNVs) at chr7p14.1 by microarray, q-PCR, RT-PCR, and FISH. Osteosarcoma predisposing CNVs results are then compared among cases versus healthy controls.
Clinical information associated with each osteosarcoma sample (i.e., gender, age of diagnosis, tumor site, tumor type and grade, presence of metastases at time of diagnosis, response to chemotherapy, event-free survival, and overall survival) is also collected, if available.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 243 samples from patients with osteosarcoma and 80 samples from healthy controls will be accrued to this study.
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
Meets 1 of the following criteria:
Diagnosis of osteosarcoma (OS) and meets 1 of the following criteria:
Original 153 OS samples, including paired germline and tumor DNA
Additional samples from 90 patients with OS:
Healthy controls, age- and gender-matched
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: