Constrained positive selection on cancer mutations in normal skin

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2016, Pages E1128-E1129

  Martincorena, Iñigo ^a   Jones, Philip H ^a,b   Campbell, Peter J ^a,c  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOTCH1 RECEPTOR; NOTCH2 RECEPTOR; NOTCH3 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN P53;

CANCER GENETICS; CANCER GROWTH; ESOPHAGUS MUCOSA; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FUNCTION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TUMOR GENE; CELL TRANSFORMATION; EPIDERMIS; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; STEM CELL;

CELL TRANSFORMATION, NEOPLASTIC; EPIDERMIS; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; STEM CELLS;

EID: 84959310162     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1600910113     Document Type: Letter

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