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Mutational Signatures: From Methods to Mechanisms.
Annual review of biomedical data science - 20 Jul 2021
Kim Yoo-Ah, Leiserson Mark D M, Moorjani Priya, Sharan Roded, Wojtowicz Damian, Przytycka Teresa M
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Mutations are the driving force of evolution, yet they underlie many diseases, in particular, cancer. They are thought to arise from a combination of stochastic errors in DNA processing, naturally occurring DNA damage (e.g., the spontaneous deamination of methylated CpG sites), replication errors, and dysregulation of DNA repair mechanisms. High-throughput sequencing has made it possible to generate large...
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