Exploration of the gene fusion landscape of glioblastoma using transcriptome sequencing and copy number data

BMC Genomics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Shah, Nameeta ^a   Lankerovich, Michael ^a   Lee, Hwahyung ^a   Yoon, Jae Geun ^a   Schroeder, Brett ^a   Foltz, Greg ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

EGFR fusions; FGFR3 TACC3; Gene fusion; Glioblastoma; Non coding gene fusions; NTRK1; PIK3C2B; RNA seq; ROS1

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME 7P; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGFR GENE; GENE; GENE DOSAGE; GENE FUSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DISORDER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONCODING GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

HEDERA;

DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GLIOBLASTOMA; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84887926034     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-14-818     Document Type: Article

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