[Specifically for gliomas, genetic studies have indicated loss of germline heterozygosity for chromosome 17p; mutation of the p53 gene; overexpression of the platelet-derived growth factor-alpha receptor; allelic losses of chromosomes 22q, 13q, and 19q; deletion of the interferon-alpha and beta and CDKN2 loci on chromosome 9p; amplification and rearrangement of the epidermal growth factor receptor gene, and monosomy of chromosome 10.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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