We then conducted an in silico investigation into the levels of EGFR and PDGFRA amplified sub-populations observed under competitive, cooperative and neutral interactions between these cell types and compared our results to population levels of amplification observed in image-localized biopsy data from a cohort of GBM patients, where a high proportion of biopsies had only the EGFR gene amplified, a smaller proportion had both or neither gene amplified and very few showed amplification of only the PDGFRA gene (see Figure 2b). Here, PDGFRA is linked to glioblastoma.