• Mutational signatures are characteristic combinations of mutation types arising from specific mutagenesis processes such as DNA replication infidelity...
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    TMB is defined as the number of somatic mutations/megabase whereas mutational signatures are distinct mutational patterns of single base substitutions,...
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    relevant mutational signatures associated with BRCA1/BRCA2 deficiency, irrespective of whether these signatures are the dominant mutational process in...
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  • previously demonstrated to have a characteristic mutational signature. The same mutational signature was discovered in several cohorts of colon cancer...
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  • Cambridge in 2014. Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger...
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    Mutagen (category Mutation)
    although not all necessarily are. All mutagens have characteristic mutational signatures with some chemicals becoming mutagenic through cellular processes...
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    DNA polymerase theta is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the POLQ gene. This polymerase plays a key role in one of the three major double strand...
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    context-dependent mutations can be represented in the form of a nonnegative matrix. This matrix can be further decomposed into components (mutational signatures) which...
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  • signature of phylogenetically related genomes is similar. Gene signature mutational signatures Alignment-free sequence analysis Bioinformatics Computational...
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    Steven G.; Tan, Patrick; Teh, Bin Tean (7 August 2013). "Genome-Wide Mutational Signatures of Aristolochic Acid and Its Application as a Screening Tool". Science...
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  • DNA rearrangements. COSMIC also catalogues mutational signatures in human cancer through the COSMIC Signatures group, which represents a collaboration between...
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  • frequency, distribution and mutation patterns of cancer. She showed that it was possible to identify mutational signatures using downstream analysis, and...
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  • subjects for optimal benefit of specific treatments. Genomic signature Mutational signatures Gene expression profiling Gene expression profiling in cancer...
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    Guan, P.; Weng, W.-H.; Siew, E. Y.; Liu, Y. (2013). "Genome-Wide Mutational Signatures of Aristolochic Acid and Its Application as a Screening Tool". Science...
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    genetic drift. For example, smaller populations with heavy mutational input (high rates of mutation) are prone to increases of genetic variation which lead...
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    Fleischmann Z, Tse JY, Decker B (March 2022). "Prevalence of UV Mutational Signatures Among Cutaneous Primary Tumors". JAMA Network Open. 5 (3): e223833...
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  • have distinctive mutational signatures that reflect differences in the contributions of mutational pathways. Mutational signatures have proved useful...
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    cancer to develop in an individual can be identified by analyzing mutational signatures from genomic sequencing of tumor DNA. For example, this can reveal...
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  • cancer-specific research but are not reflected in economics and policy. Mutational signatures of various cancers, for example, could reveal further causes of...
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  • plasma tend to occur on longer cfDNA fragments, and to lack specific mutational signatures such as those associated with tobacco smoking in lung cancer that...
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    the prevalence of breast cancer biomarkers and metabolite signatures indicated unique signatures that are currently undergoing further validation in larger...
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  • Tse, Julie Y.; Decker, Brennan (23 March 2022). "Prevalence of UV Mutational Signatures Among Cutaneous Primary Tumors". JAMA Network Open. 5 (3): e223833...
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  • manifested in different context-dependent mutational profiles. It can be explored by COSMIC mutational signatures or MutaGene. Tumour cells can also show...
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  • Steele, E.J. (2013). "Critical analysis of strand-biased somatic mutation signatures in TP53 versus Ig genes, in genome -wide data and the etiology of...
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    Scott Lawrence is an American geneticist best known for his work on mutational signatures. Lawrence is an assistant professor of pathology at the Harvard...
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    MCV-induced MCC, these tumors tend to have much higher mutational burdens with mutational signatures characteristic of UV damage. Genes frequently mutated...
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    and cancer: Critical analysis of strand-biased and codon-context mutation signatures". DNA Repair. 45 (2016): 1–2 4. doi:10.1016/j.dnarep.2016.07.001...
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    cross-link where it was shown on the basis of the difference in the mutational signatures of the two polymerases, that pol IV and pol V compete for TLS of...
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    See-Tong; Tan, Patrick; Teh, Bin Tean; Rozen, Steven G. (Dec 2015). "Mutation signatures implicate aristolochic acid in bladder cancer development". Genome...
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    Mutationism is one of several alternatives to evolution by natural selection that have existed both before and after the publication of Charles Darwin's...
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