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7.5 Glioblastoma Pathway Analysis Results<br />

Figure 7.9 displays a simplified and condensed version <strong>of</strong> the integrated GBM<br />

pathway <strong>of</strong> figure 7.8 that is focused on the pathways most frequently affected<br />

in glioblastoma, meant to highlight that we did capture some <strong>of</strong> the most com-<br />

mon alterations in glioblastoma with the GNS/NS comparison. Such changes<br />

include up-regulation <strong>of</strong> EGFR and down-regulation <strong>of</strong> the tumour suppres-<br />

sor PTEN [326]. Similarly to the complete pathway in figure 7.8, the colour<br />

gradient <strong>of</strong> the condensed pathway in figure 7.9 is taken from the same colour<br />

gradients defined in the qRT-PCR heatmap <strong>of</strong> figure 6.13 and the tumour<br />

expression correlation heatmap <strong>of</strong> figure 7.4.<br />

Figure 7.9: Affected p53, RB1 and PTEN/PI3K pathways. Genes are represented<br />

by circles coloured according to the expression FC measured between GNS and NS<br />

cell lines by Tag-seq.<br />

Given the high heterogeneity typical <strong>of</strong> glioblastoma tumours, we envisioned<br />

another application for our GBM integrated pathway. Since every cell line<br />

originated from a separate patient (for the exception <strong>of</strong> G144ED and G144)<br />

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