Strand-resolved mutagenicity of DNA damage and repair.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 Jun 2024
Historique:
received: 10 06 2022
accepted: 30 04 2024
medline: 13 6 2024
pubmed: 13 6 2024
entrez: 12 6 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

DNA base damage is a major source of oncogenic mutations

Identifiants

pubmed: 38867042
doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07490-1
pii: 10.1038/s41586-024-07490-1
doi:

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Journal Article

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eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Investigateurs

Stuart Aitken (S)
Claudia Arnedo-Pac (C)
Maëlle Daunesse (M)
Ruben M Drews (RM)
Ailith Ewing (A)
Christine Feig (C)
Paul Flicek (P)
Vera B Kaiser (VB)
Elissavet Kentepozidou (E)
Erika López-Arribillaga (E)
Margus Lukk (M)
Tim F Rayner (TF)
Inés Sentís (I)

Informations de copyright

© 2024. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Craig J Anderson (CJ)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Lana Talmane (L)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Juliet Luft (J)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

John Connelly (J)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Edinburgh Pathology, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Laboratory Medicine, NHS Lothian, Edinburgh, UK.

Michael D Nicholson (MD)

CRUK Scotland Centre, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Jan C Verburg (JC)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Oriol Pich (O)

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.

Susan Campbell (S)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Marco Giaisi (M)

Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis (B400), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Pei-Chi Wei (PC)

Brain Mosaicism and Tumorigenesis (B400), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Vasavi Sundaram (V)

European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.

Frances Connor (F)

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

Paul A Ginno (PA)

Division of Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution (B270), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

Takayo Sasaki (T)

San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.

David M Gilbert (DM)

San Diego Biomedical Research Institute, San Diego, CA, USA.

Núria López-Bigas (N)

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, Spain.
Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Cáncer (CIBERONC), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.

Colin A Semple (CA)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.

Duncan T Odom (DT)

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. d.odom@dkfz-heidelberg.de.
Division of Regulatory Genomics and Cancer Evolution (B270), German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany. d.odom@dkfz-heidelberg.de.

Sarah J Aitken (SJ)

Medical Research Council Toxicology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. sa696@cam.ac.uk.
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. sa696@cam.ac.uk.
Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. sa696@cam.ac.uk.
Department of Histopathology, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK. sa696@cam.ac.uk.

Martin S Taylor (MS)

Medical Research Council Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. martin.taylor@ed.ac.uk.

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