Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Characterization of PIK3CA and PIK3R1 somatic mutations in Chinese breast cancer patients

  • Li Chen,
  • Liu Yang,
  • Ling Yao,
  • Xia-Ying Kuang,
  • Wen-Jia Zuo,
  • Shan Li,
  • Feng Qiao,
  • Yi-Rong Liu,
  • Zhi-Gang Cao,
  • Shu-Ling Zhou,
  • Xiao-Yan Zhou,
  • Wen-Tao Yang,
  • Jin-Xiu Shi,
  • Wei Huang,
  • Xin Hu,
  • Zhi-Ming Shao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03867-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The PI3K pathway is altered across various cancer types. Here the authors use amplicon exon sequencing to analyze the landscape of somatic mutations affecting the PI3K pathway specifically in breast cancer patients in China.