@article{García_Arias_Aristizábal_2009, title={Detection of genes mutations in the K-ras, H-ras and EGFR in samples of blood plasma and cervical smears for patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia III and cervical cancer}, volume={40}, url={https://colombiamedica.univalle.edu.co/index.php/comedica/article/view/627}, DOI={10.25100/cm.v40i1.627}, abstractNote={<strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Introduction:</span></strong> Cervical cancer is the second most important cancer in women worldwide, and the second cause of cancer death in women. It has been shown that the process of cervical carcinogenesis presents as genetic and epigenetic components as environmental issues. At present, many studies are addressed in searching for molecular markers such as mutations in oncogenes and/or tumor suppressor genes that are associated with the progression of this disease, the most studied candidate genes in cervical cancer in different populations have been H-ras, K-ras, EGFR among others. <br /> <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objective:</span> </strong>The present study identified human papilloma virus (HPV) generic and specific in DNA-free plasma and cervical smears of invasive cervical cancer patients and patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) III in addition to assessing genetic alterations, such as mutations in the genes H-ras, EGFR and K-ras. <br /> Methods: To do so generic HPV was detected by PCR with primers GP5+/GP6+, and specific HPV 16 and 18 in E6/E7 region; to detect mutations in codon 12 of H-ras, codons 12 and 13 of K-ras and EGFR exon 21 was conducted by direct sequencing of PCR products of these gene fragments. <br /><strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Results:</span> </strong>Getting a good correlation between samples of blood plasma and cervical smears for both; the findings of HPV p=0.0374 and evaluated mutations p=0. In general, for EGFR in exon 21 mutations were not found, as for codons 12 and 13 in K-ras and codon 12 in H-ras.<br /> <strong><span style="font-weight: bold;">Conclusion:</span></strong> The use of DNA in plasma may be relevant to the analysis of mutations and the presences of tumor markers are not available from other samples.}, number={1}, journal={Colombia Medica}, author={García, Dabeiba Adriana and Arias, Yazmín Rocío and Aristizábal, Fabio Ancízar}, year={2009}, month={Dec.}, pages={34–50} }