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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Quayle SN
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3498106 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
PloS one 20121114 11
The phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway is targeted for frequent alteration in glioblastoma (GBM) and is one of the core GBM pathways defined by The Cancer Genome Atlas. Somatic mutations of PIK3R1 are observed in multiple tumor types, but the tumorigenic activity of these mutations has not been demonstrated in GBM. We show here that somatic mutations in the iSH2 domain of PIK3R1 act as oncogenic driver events. Specifically, introduction of a subset of the mutations identified in human GBM, ...[more]