A pan-cancer genome-wide analysis reveals tumour dependencies by induction of nonsense-mediated decay
Nonsense-mediated decay (NMD) eliminates transcripts with premature stop codons and has been linked to cancer genesis. Here, the authors develop an algorithm to predict NMD and perform a pan-cancer analysis that finds that some hypermutated cancers are dependent on mutations that elicit NMD.
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-06-01
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Series: | Nature Communications |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15943 |