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Table 3 Alleles that undergo somatic selection in cancers are enriched for deleterious alleles

From: Exonic variants undergoing allele-specific selection in cancers

Somatic selection

Cancer type

Significance level of \({\pi }_{i}\)

Fraction of deleterious alleles undergo somatic selection

Fraction of deleterious alleles in exonic alleles

Ratio

P value

Selected-for

BRCA

0.001

0.286

0.426

0.670

6.361e-01

0.01

0.533

0.426

1.251

2.362e-02

0.05

0.516

0.426

1.211

1.914e-04

COAD

0.001

0.800

0.423

1.893

1.347e-02

0.01

0.617

0.423

1.461

1.349e-04

0.05

0.525

0.423

1.241

4.558e-06

LUAD

0.001

0.400

0.441

0.908

5.186e-01

0.01

0.509

0.441

1.155

6.151e-02

0.05

0.481

0.441

1.091

3.543e-02

PRAD

0.001

NA

0.436

NA

NA

0.01

NA

0.436

NA

NA

0.05

0.500

0.436

1.148

1.673e-01

Selected-against

BRCA

0.001

0.370

0.426

0.869

6.497e-01

0.01

0.471

0.426

1.105

1.250e-01

0.05

0.503

0.426

1.181

4.496e-05

COAD

0.001

0.286

0.423

0.676

6.284e-01

0.01

0.510

0.423

1.208

3.282e-02

0.05

0.477

0.423

1.129

5.585e-03

LUAD

0.001

0.472

0.441

1.070

2.753e-01

0.01

0.505

0.441

1.146

1.024e-02

0.05

0.493

0.441

1.118

3.740e-04

PRAD

0.001

0.500

0.436

1.148

1.898e-01

0.01

0.538

0.436

1.236

1.522e-01

0.05

0.356

0.436

0.817

9.524e-01