Patterns and processes of somatic mutations in nine major cancers

BMC Medical Genomics

Table 1 Description of the mutation datasets

Dataset	Cancer type	Sequencing platform	# samples	# SNVs	Pub. year	Reference
HNSCC	Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma	WES	74	9398	2011	Stransky et al. [6]
LUAD	Lung adenocarcinoma	WES, WGS	182	62,767	2012	Imielinski et al. [15]
Melanoma	Melanoma	WES	121	220,430	2012	Hodis et al. [28]
TCGA_BRCA	Breast tumors	WES	507	31,538	2012	TCGA [25]
TCGA_CRC	Colon and rectal cancer	WES	224	90,059	2012	TCGA [26]
TCGA_EC	Endometrial carcinoma	WES	248	181,815	2013	TCGA [27]
TCGA_GBM	Glioblastoma	WES	290	20,949	2008	TCGA [23]
TCGA_OvCa	Ovarian carcinoma	WES	316	18,296	2011	TCGA [29]
TCGA_SQCC	Squamous cell lung cancer	WES	177	64,339	2012	TCGA [30]

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