What makes oncogenes mutually exclusive?

Abstract excerpt

Cancer is driven by mutations in genes whose products participate in major signaling pathways that fuel cell proliferation and survival. It is easy to assume that the more of these so-called driver mutations a tumor accumulates, the faster it progresses. However, this does not appear to be the case: Data from large-scale genome sequencing studies indicate that mutations in driver oncogenes often are mutually...

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