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Genome-wide mapping of somatic mutation rates uncovers drivers of cancer

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Sherman, Maxwell A., Yaari, Adam U., Priebe, Oliver, Dietlein, Felix, Loh, Po-Ru, Berger, Bonnie·2022·Nature Biotechnology

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Identification of cancer driver mutations that confer a proliferative advantage is central to understanding cancer; however, searches have often been limited to protein-coding sequences and specific non-coding elements (for example, promoters) because of the challenge of modeling the highly variable somatic mutation rates observed across tumor genomes. Here we present Dig, a method to search for driver elements and mutations anywhere in the genome. We use deep neural networks to map cancer-specific mutation rates genome-wide at kilobase-scale resolution. These estimates are then refined to search for evidence of driver mutations under positive selection throughout the genome by comparing observed to expected mutation counts. We mapped mutation rates for 37 cancer types and applied these maps to identify putative drivers within intronic cryptic splice regions, 5' untranslated regions and infrequently mutated genes. Our high-resolution mutation rate maps, available for web-based exploration, are a resource to enable driver discovery genome-wide.

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Authors
Sherman, M. A., Yaari, A. U., Priebe, O., Dietlein, F., Loh, P.-R., & Berger, B.
Affiliations
Broad Institute (US)
Corresponding author
  • Loh, Po-Ru
  • Berger, Bonnie
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2022-06-20
Volume
40
Issue
11
Pages
1634-1643
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W4283163503
Cited by
80
References
79
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 18 · 2024: 31 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 4
FWCI
6.84
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (F31 MH124393)
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (DP2 ES030554)
  • Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  • Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Cancer Institute (U01CA250554)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genomics and Rare Diseases
Keywords
somatic mutation rate, cancer driver mutations, positive selection, deep neural network, 5' untranslated region, cancer genome
MeSH terms
Humans, Mutation, Neoplasms, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Open Reading Frames, Mutation Rate

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