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## Abstract According to the inactive‐X hypothesis only one of the two genes at X‐linked loci is active in somatic cells of females. Thus, in women heterozygous for the A and B genes at the X‐linked glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase (G‐6‐PD) locus, single cells or clones of cells show either type A or type B enzyme. Similarly, pure tumors with a clonal origin arising in G‐6‐PD heterozygotes exhibit only type A or B enzyme, while those with multiple cell origin may show both A and B enzymes. The G‐6‐PD types of normal and neoplastic tissue were determined in 28 patients with tumors of the head and neck who were heterozygous at the G‐6‐PD locus. Normal tissues contained two enzyme types. Only one tumor from the 11 patients with anaplastic carcinoma of the nasopharynx was pure enough (i. e., with a relatively small number of non‐tumor cells) to allow firm conclusions. This tumor had a single enzyme phenotype and this is compatible with a clonal origin. Single enzyme phenotypes were also found in the two benign tumors and in single cases of plasmacytoma, melanoma, neuroblastoma and reticulum‐cell sarcoma. The data from three cases of carcinoma of the palate and from single cases of car

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Author

Philip J. Fialkow; George M. Martin; George Klein; Peter Clifford; Surjit Singh

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square; Test accounts (ISSN 0020-7136)

Published

1972

Language

EN

ISBN

9782910090111

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)