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Exome sequencing identifies recurrent mutations in NF1 and RASopathy genes in sun-exposed melanomas.

We report on whole-exome sequencing (WES) of 213 melanomas. Our analysis established NF1, encoding a negative regulator of RAS, as the third most frequently mutated gene in melanoma, after BRAF and NRAS. Inactivating NF1 mutations were present in 46% …

Adjusting for background mutation frequency biases improves the identification of cancer driver genes.

A common goal of tumor sequencing projects is finding genes whose mutations are selected for during tumor development. This is accomplished by choosing genes that have more non-synonymous mutations than expected from an estimated background mutation …