Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes

Christopher Greenman; Philip Stephens; Raffaella Smith; Gillian L. Dalgliesh; Chris Hunter; Graham R. Bignell; Helen Davies; Jon W. Teague; Adam P. Butler; Claire Stevens; Sarah Edkins; Sarah O’Meara; Imre Västrik; Esther Schmidt; Tim Avis; Syd Barthorpe; Gurpreet Bhamra; Gemma Buck; Bhudipa Choudhury; Jody Clements; Jennifer Cole; Ed Dicks; Simon Forbes; Kristian Gray; Kelly Halliday; Rachel Harrison; Katy Hills; Jon Hinton; Andy Jenkinson; David Jones; Andy Menzies; Tatiana Mironenko; Janet Perry; Keiran Raine; David Richardson; Rebecca Shepherd; Alexandra Small; Calli Tofts; Jennifer Varian; Tony Webb; Sofie West; Sara Widaa; Andrew Yates; Daniel P. Cahill; David N. Louis; Peter Goldstraw; Andrew G. Nicholson; Francis Brasseur; Leendert H. J. Looijenga; Barbara L. Weber; Yoke-Eng Chiew; Anna deFazio; Mel Greaves; Anthony R. Green; Peter J. Campbell; Ewan Birney; Douglas F. Easton; Georgia Chenevix‐Trench; Min-Han Tan; Sok Kean Khoo; Bin Tean Teh; Siu Tsan Yuen; Suet Yi Leung; Richard Wooster; P. Andrew Futreal; Michael R. Stratton

doi:10.1038/nature05610

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BiologyGeneticsGeneGenomeCarcinogenesisSomatic cellHuman genomeMutationGermline mutationCancerDNA sequencingCancer genome sequencingExonDNA repairComputational biology

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Year: 2007
Type: article
Volume: 446
Issue: 7132
Pages: 153-158
Citations: 3103
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                                    Christopher Greenman, 
                                
                                    Philip Stephens, 
                                
                                    Raffaella Smith
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2007). 
                            Patterns of somatic mutation in human cancer genomes. 
                            Nature
                            , 446
                            (7132)
                            , 153-158.
                            https://doi.org/10.1038/nature05610
                        

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DOI: 10.1038/nature05610