Signaling by Overexpressed Wild-Type EGFR in Cancer

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R-HSA-5638302
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Homo sapiens
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Signaling by EGFR is frequently activated in cancer through genomic amplification of the EGFR locus, resulting in over-expression of the wild-type protein (Wong et al. 1987).
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PubMed ID Title Journal Year
3477813 Increased expression of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene in malignant gliomas is invariably associated with gene amplification

Vogelstein, B, Bigner, SH, Bigner, DD, Kinzler, KW, Hamilton, SR, Wong, AJ

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 1987
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cancer DOID:162 malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, primary cancer
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