Mutational Biases Drive Elevated Rates of Substitution at Regulatory Sites across Cancer Types.

Disruption of gene regulation is known to play major roles in carcinogenesis and tumour progression. Here, we comprehensively characterize the mutational profiles of diverse transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) across 1,574 completely sequenced cancer genomes encompassing 11 tumour types. We a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vera B Kaiser, Martin S Taylor, Colin A Semple
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1006207