02 February 2015 8 6K Report

We all have experiences that more and more mutations are found in tumors. A few of them are recurrence (driver mutations) but most of them are not. The problem is how to determine a mutation actually a driver mutation for a specific tumor? What standard we should follow and what should be the rule? Many of the mutations may be merely passenger mutations caused by the genetic instability after carcinogenesis process.

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