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Highly frequent PIK3CA amplification is associated with poor prognosis in gastric cancer.
BMC cancer - 1 Feb 2012
Shi Jing, Yao Demao, Liu Wei, Wang Na, Lv Hongjun, Zhang Guanjun, Ji Meiju, Xu Li, He Nongyue, Shi Bingyin, Hou Peng
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BACKGROUND: The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt pathway plays a fundamental role in cell proliferation and survival in human tumorigenesis, including gastric cancer. PIK3CA mutations and amplification are two major causes of overactivation of this pathway in human cancers. However, until thi...
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