Synonymous somatic mutations that alter proximal out-of-frame downstream ATGs are associated with aberrant gene expression levels in cancer cells

Jinhui Kong; Shuo Zhang; Wenfeng Qian; Ke Li

doi:10.1016/j.jgg.2023.02.013

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Synonymous somatic mutations that alter proximal out-of-frame downstream ATGs are associated with aberrant gene expression levels in cancer cells

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2023.02.013

1. State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;
2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
3. State Key Laboratory of Plant Genomics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Innovation Academy for Seed Design, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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This work was supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2019YFA0508700) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32100443 and 31922014).

Received Date: 2022-12-28
Publish Date: 2023-03-08

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