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A screen of the complete protein kinase gene family identifies diverse patterns of somatic mutations in human breast cancer

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We examined the coding sequence of 518 protein kinases, ∼1.3 Mb of DNA per sample, in 25 breast cancers. In many tumors, we detected no somatic mutations. But a few had numerous somatic mutations with distinctive patterns indicative of either a mutator phenotype or a past exposure.

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Figure 1: Breast cancer mutational spectra.

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Supplementary Table 1

Mutation data for the primary and secondary screen (PDF 47 kb)

Supplementary Table 2

Genes analysed in the primary and secondary screens (XLS 66 kb)

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Samples. (PDF 40 kb)

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Coding strand. (PDF 52 kb)

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Pyrimidine strand. (PDF 51 kb)

Supplementary Methods (PDF 78 kb)

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Stephens, P., Edkins, S., Davies, H. et al. A screen of the complete protein kinase gene family identifies diverse patterns of somatic mutations in human breast cancer. Nat Genet 37, 590–592 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng1571

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