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Gene amplification refers to a number of natural and artificial processes by which the number of copies of a gene is increased "without a proportional increase in other genes".[1]

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Gene amplification

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Gene amplification refers to a number of natural and artificial processes by which the number of copies of a gene is increased "without a proportional...

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Gene duplication

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Gene duplication (or chromosomal duplication or gene amplification) is a major mechanism through which new genetic material is generated during molecular...

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Polymerase chain reaction

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Turlotte E (November 1998). "[A method of isothermal gene amplification]" [An Isothermal Amplification Method]. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences...

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Double minute

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colon, and most notably, neuroblastoma. They are a manifestation of gene amplification as a result of chromothripsis, during the development of tumors, which...

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Gene amplification in Paramecium tetraurelia

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Gene amplification in Paramecium tetraurelia is an example of gene amplification that has occurred in the unicellular organism Paramecium tetraurelia....

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Evolution by gene duplication

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then be amplified with additional copies of the gene. Such a rapid amplification is best known from bacteria that often carry certain genes on smaller...

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Chromogenic in situ hybridization

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chromosomal aneuploidy and gene amplification as the reference gene will also be amplified in aneuploidy but not in gene amplification detection. Tanner, M;...

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Antineoplastic resistance

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alterations (e.g. gene amplification and deletion) and epigenetic modifications. Cancer cells are constantly using a variety of tools, involving genes, proteins...

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Extrachromosomal DNA

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driver oncogenes. ecDNA is considered to be a primary mechanism of gene amplification, resulting in many copies of driver oncogenes and very aggressive...

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Amplicon

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product of an amplification reaction, amplicon is used interchangeably with common laboratory terms, such as "PCR product." Artificial amplification is used...

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Industrial microbiology

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introducing them to mutagens. Another way to increase production is by gene amplification, this is done by the use of plasmids, and vectors. The plasmids and/...

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Gene family

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stressor acts on a species. Gene amplification is more common in bacteria and is a reversible process. Contraction of gene families commonly results from...

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Touchdown polymerase chain reaction

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in early steps of amplification will "swamp out" any specific sequences because of the exponential nature of polymerase amplification. The earliest steps...

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Cyclin E

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~10% of colorectal carcinomas, cyclin E gene amplification is found, sometimes together with CDK2 gene amplification. Cyclin E is also a useful prognostic...

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Zein

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nonexpressed genes. Some of the expressed genes differ in their transcriptional regulation. Gene amplification appears to be in blocks of genes explaining...

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Ubiquitin

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limitless cell proliferation to occur. Gene amplification often occur in various tumor cases, including of MDM2, a gene encodes for a RING E3 Ubiquitin ligase...

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Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction

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and control amplification, it is crucial to take into consideration the starting target molecules concentration and their amplification rate prior to...

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Somatic evolution in cancer

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copies of the AR gene (amplification) have been observed in anti-androgen resistant prostate cancer. These additional copies of the gene are thought to...

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HER2

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uncontrolled cell growth from occurring. Amplification, also known as the over-expression of the ERBB2 gene, occurs in approximately 15-30% of breast...

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Adaptive mutation

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the phenomenon was due to general hypermutability due to selected gene amplification, followed by natural selection, and was thus a standard Darwinian...

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Myc

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Miz-1 target genes. In addition, myc has a direct role in the control of DNA replication. This activity could contribute to DNA amplification in cancer cells...

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Extrachromosomal circular DNA

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tumors, and more specifically the amplification of oncogenes and drug-resistant genes. This also supports that the genes on eccDNA are expressed. Overall...

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KRAS

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Nagtegaal ID, Paraf F, Lauricella C, et al. (September 2013). "KRAS gene amplification in colorectal cancer and impact on response to EGFR-targeted therapy"...

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Edith Heard

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awarded a PhD from Imperial College London for research investigating gene amplification in rat cells in 1990 while working at the Imperial Cancer Research...

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Production of antibiotics

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or more. Another technique used to increase yields is gene amplification, where copies of genes coding for enzymes involved in the antibiotic production...

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