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Studies that have provided the first unbiased, large-scale analyses of DNA mutations across an array of cancers also have lessons for the proposal to annotate the entire cancer genome.

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Figure 1: The variety of defects underlying human cancer.

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Haber, D., Settleman, J. Drivers and passengers. Nature 446, 145–146 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446145a

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