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SUBMITTER: Yang F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657826 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Fan F Kim Dae-Kyum DK Nakagawa Hidewaki H Hayashi Shuto S Imoto Seiya S Stein Lincoln L Roth Frederick P FP
PLoS genetics 20190725 7
Somatic mutations in protein-coding regions can generate 'neoantigens' causing developing cancers to be eliminated by the immune system. Quantitative estimates of the strength of this counterselection phenomenon have been lacking. We quantified the extent to which somatic mutations are depleted in peptides that are predicted to be displayed by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I proteins. The extent of this depletion depended on expression level of the neoantigenic gene, and on whethe ...[more]