Quantifying immune-based counterselection of somatic mutations.

Somatic mutations in protein-coding regions can generate 'neoantigens' causing developing cancers to be eliminated by the immune system. Quantitative estimates of the strength of this counterselection phenomenon have been lacking. We quantified the extent to which somatic mutations are dep...

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Main Authors: Fan Yang, Dae-Kyum Kim, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Shuto Hayashi, Seiya Imoto, Lincoln Stein, Frederick P Roth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-07-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008227