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APOBEC-Induced Cancer Mutations Are Uniquely Enriched in Early-Replicating, Gene-Dense, and Active Chromatin Regions.
Cell reports - 10 Nov 2015
Kazanov Marat D, Roberts Steven A, Polak Paz, Stamatoyannopoulos John, Klimczak Leszek J, Gordenin Dmitry A, Sunyaev Shamil R
Abstract excerpt
An antiviral component of the human innate immune system-the APOBEC cytidine deaminases-was recently identified as a prominent source of mutations in cancers. Here, we investigated the distribution of APOBEC-induced mutations across the genomes of 119 breast and 24 lung cancer samples. While the rate of most mutations is known to be elevated in late-replicating regions that are characterized by reduced chromatin...
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