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Deletion and tandem duplication of exons 2 - 7 in the epidermal growth factor receptor gene of a human malignant glioma.
Oncogene - 14 Sept 2000
Fenstermaker R A, Ciesielski M J
Abstract excerpt
The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene is frequently amplified and rearranged in malignant gliomas with expression of oncogenic deletion mutants (DM). The most common mutant EGFRvIII, which contains a deletion of exons 2 - 7, is constitutively autophosphorylated and inefficiently downregulated. Other less common EGFR mRNA species in gliomas contain tandem duplication of exons, which encode the tyrosine...
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