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amplicons

Wednesday 15 June 2005

Exemples

- 1q21-q22 amplicon

- 12q13-12q14 amplicon

  • target genes: CDK4 (12q14)

- 15q25-26 amplicon

  • target genes: IGF1R

References

- Bignell GR, Santarius T, Pole JC, Butler AP, Perry J, Pleasance E, Greenman C, Menzies A, Taylor S, Edkins S, Campbell P, Quail M, Plumb B, Matthews L, McLay K, Edwards PA, Rogers J, Wooster R, Futreal PA, Stratton MR. Architectures of somatic genomic rearrangement in human cancer amplicons at sequence-level resolution. Genome Res. 2007 Sep;17(9):1296-303. PMID: 17675364