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HotSpotter: efficient visualization of driver mutations.
BMC genomics - 1 Dec 2014
Roszik Jason, Woodman Scott E
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BACKGROUND: Driver mutations are positively selected during the evolution of cancers. The relative frequency of a particular mutation within a gene is typically used as a criterion for identifying a driver mutation. However, driver mutations may occur with relative infrequency at a particular site, but cluster within a region of the gene. When analyzing across different cancers, particular mutation sites or...
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