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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhiyuan Hu, Christopher Yau, Ahmed Ashour Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15943