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The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types

Temko, D; Tomlinson, IPM; Severini, S; Schuster-Bockler, B; Graham, TA; (2018) The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types. Nature Communications , 9 , Article 1857. 10.1038/s41467-018-04208-6. Green open access

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Abstract

Epidemiological evidence has long associated environmental mutagens with increased cancer risk. However, links between specific mutation-causing processes and the acquisition of individual driver mutations have remained obscure. Here we have used public cancer sequencing data from 11,336 cancers of various types to infer the independent effects of mutation and selection on the set of driver mutations in a cancer type. First, we detect associations between a range of mutational processes, including those linked to smoking, ageing, APOBEC and DNA mismatch repair (MMR) and the presence of key driver mutations across cancer types. Second, we quantify differential selection between well-known alternative driver mutations, including differences in selection between distinct mutant residues in the same gene. These results show that while mutational processes have a large role in determining which driver mutations are present in a cancer, the role of selection frequently dominates.

Type: Article
Title: The effects of mutational processes and selection on driver mutations across cancer types
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-04208-6
Publisher version: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04208-6
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/. - With corrected version of published article (corrected 20/4/20).
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10065058
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