Article
Statistical method on nonrandom clustering with application to somatic mutations in cancer.
BMC bioinformatics - 7 Jan 2010
Ye Jingjing, Pavlicek Adam, Lunney Elizabeth A, Rejto Paul A, Teng Chi-Hse
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Human cancer is caused by the accumulation of tumor-specific mutations in oncogenes and tumor suppressors that confer a selective growth advantage to cells. As a consequence of genomic instability and high levels of proliferation, many passenger mutations that do not contribute to the cancer phenotype arise alongside mutations that drive oncogenesis. While several approaches have been developed to...
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