Somatic mutation distribution across tumour cohorts provides a signal for positive selection in cancer.

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Cancer gene discovery is reliant on distinguishing driver mutations from a multitude of passenger mutations in tumour genomes. While driver genes may be revealed based on excess mutation recurrence or clustering, there is a need for orthogonal principles. Here, we take advantage of the fact that non-cancer genes, containing only passenger mutations under neutral selection, exhibit a likelihood of mutagenesis in a...

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