1. Figure 5 Mutational heterogeneity in oesophageal and gastric cancer
Figure 5 | Mutational heterogeneity in oesophageal and gastric cancer. Mutation frequencies observed in exomes from 3,083 tumour–normal pairs are shown [L153]. Each dot corresponds to a tumour–normal pair, with vertical position indicating the total frequency of somatic mutations in the exome. Tumour types are ordered by their median somatic mutation frequency, with the lowest frequencies (left) found in haematological and paediatric tumours, and the highest frequencies (right). The lowest and highest mutation frequencies vary more than 1,000-fold across different cancers and also within several tumour types. The bottom panel shows the relative proportions of the six different possible base-pair substitutions, as indicated in the legend on the left. Reproduced with permission © Lawrence, M. S. et al. Nature 499, 214–218 (2013)152.
Reproduced with permission © Lawrence, M. S. et al. Nature 499, 214–218 (2013)
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