Selection pressures of TP53 mutation and microenvironmental location influence epidermal growth factor receptor gene amplification in human glioblastomas.

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Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene amplification occurs in glioblastomas as so-called double minutes. Because double minutes are extrachromosomal fragments, selection pressures must operate to maintain high EGFR copy number over multiple cell divisions. In analyses of glioblastoma lysates, EGFR amplification has been observed almost exclusively in glioblastomas harboring wild-type TP53 genes, which...

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