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Signs of positive selection of somatic mutations in human cancers detected by EST sequence analysis.
BMC cancer - 9 Feb 2006
Babenko Vladimir N, Basu Malay K, Kondrashov Fyodor A, Rogozin Igor B, Koonin Eugene V
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: 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 human cancers, p53, unexpectedly suggested that somatic...
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