静かな変異は,いくつかのノイズを作ります

Siyuan Zheng1, Hoon Kim1, Roel G W Verhaak2

  • 1Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.

Cell
|March 18, 2014
PubMed
まとめ

以前は無害と考えられていた静かな突然変異は,がんを誘発する可能性があります. この研究は,これらの同義的な遺伝的変化が遺伝子スプライシングを変化させ,タンパク質の機能に影響を与え,がんの発症を促す可能性があることを明らかにしています.

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