Arginines of the CGN codon family are Achilles' heels of cancer genes.

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Recent studies have revealed that arginine is the most favorable target of amino acid alteration in most cancer types and it has been suggested that the high preference for arginine mutations reflects the critical roles of this amino acid in the function of proteins. High rates of mutations of arginine residues in cancer, however, might also be due to increased mutability of arginine codons of the CGN family as...

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