A dominant-negative effect drives selection of TP53 missense mutations in myeloid malignancies

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p53—still hazy after all these years? The gene encoding the p53 tumor suppressor protein is the most frequently mutated gene in human cancer. Yet decades after the gene's discovery, the biology of cancer-associated missense mutations in p53 is still being debated. Previous studies have suggested that missense mutations confer tumor-promoting functions to p53. Boettcher et al. conducted a detailed analysis of p53...

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