Nonsynonymous, synonymous and nonsense mutations in human cancer-related genes undergo stronger purifying selections than expectation

Abstract Background Nonsynonymous mutations change the protein sequences and are frequently subjected to natural selection. The same goes for nonsense mutations that introduce pre-mature stop codons into CDSs (coding sequences). Synonymous mutations, however, are intuitively thought to be functional...

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Main Authors: Duan Chu, Lai Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-04-01
Series:BMC Cancer
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12885-019-5572-x