Signs of positive selection of somatic mutations in human cancers detected by EST sequence analysis

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Carcinogenesis typically involves multiple somatic mutations in caretaker (DNA repair) and gatekeeper (tumor suppressors and oncogenes) genes. Analysis of mutation spectra of the tumor suppressor that is most commonly mutated in huma...

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Main Authors: Rogozin Igor B, Kondrashov Fyodor A, Basu Malay K, Babenko Vladimir N, Koonin Eugene V
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2006-02-01
Series:BMC Cancer
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2407/6/36