Hypermutability and silent mutations in human carcinogenesis.

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Silent or synonymous mutations are nucleotide changes which do not result in an amino acid change. Such alterations make up approximately 4% of the total TP53 mutations in a database of almost 10,000 mutations. Insofar as these changes do not confer a selective advantage, silent mutations make it possible to estimate an unbiased mutation frequency. Since this frequency is at least 100 times higher than would be...

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