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SUBMITTER: Chow LM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3060664 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chow Lionel M L LM Endersby Raelene R Zhu Xiaoyan X Rankin Sherri S Qu Chunxu C Zhang Junyuan J Broniscer Alberto A Ellison David W DW Baker Suzanne J SJ
Cancer cell 20110301 3
Mutations in the PTEN, TP53, and RB1 pathways are obligate events in the pathogenesis of human glioblastomas. We induced various combinations of deletions in these tumor suppressors in astrocytes and neural precursors in mature mice, resulting in astrocytomas ranging from grade III to grade IV (glioblastoma). There was selection for mutation of multiple genes within a pathway, shown by somatic amplifications of genes in the PI3K or Rb pathway in tumors in which Pten or Rb deletion was an initiat ...[more]