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From: Functional characterization of the 19q12 amplicon in grade III breast cancers

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Patterns of 19q12 amplification and mRNA expression of genes mapping to the 19q12 amplicon. (A) aCGH heatmap of chromosome 19q12 in 313 primary breast cancers. Tumours were ordered according to histological grade, oestrogen receptor (ER) status and 19q amplification status. (B) Chromosome 19 ideogram and aCGH plots illustrating the patterns of 19q12 amplification (bright green, amp), copy number gain (green, gain) and no copy number change (black, no change) in primary breast cancers. (C) aCGH heatmap of region of amplification in 16 breast cancers harbouring amplification of the 19q12 locus. CCNE1 (box) was amplified in 5/16 cancers. (D) Heatmaps depicting aCGH states (left) and gene expression values (middle) in 48 primary breast cancers with or without 19q12 amplification. Genes are ordered according to their chromosomal position and tumours grouped according to the 19q12 amplification status. Bar plots (right) depict the Mann-Whitney U test results for the comparison of gene expression as a continuous variable and gene amplification as the grouping variable. In red, genes with P-values < 0.05 (dotted line). (E) aCGH heatmap of the 19q12 amplicon in breast cancer cells with (MDA-MB-157, HCC1569) or without (MDA-MB-231, Hs578T, MCF7, ZR75.1, BT474, JIMT1) 19q12 amplification. Box-and-whiskers plots showing the expression of genes within the amplified region in cell lines with (red) and without (grey) 19q12 amplification. *: genes significantly overexpressed when amplified (Mann-Whitney U test, P < 0.05). In all aCGH heatmaps (A, C, D, E), green: copy number loss, black: no copy number change; pink: copy number gain; bright red: gene amplification. In the microarray gene expression heatmap (D), green: down-regulation; red: up-regulation.

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