A screen of the complete protein kinase gene family identifies diverse patterns of somatic mutations in human breast cancer
Stephens P., Edkins S., Davies H., Greenman C., Cox C., Hunter C., Bignell G., Teague J., Smith R., Stevens C., O'Meara S., Parker A., Tarpey P., Avis T., Barthorpe A., Brackenbury L., Buck G., Butler A., Clements J., Cole J., Dicks E., Edwards K., Forbes S., Gorton M., Gray K., Halliday K., Harrison R., Hills K., Hinton J., Jones D., Kosmidou V., Laman R., Lugg R., Menzies A., Perry J., Petty R., Raine K., Shepherd R., Small A., Solomon H., Stephens Y., Tofts C., Varian J., Webb A., West S., Widaa S., Yates A., Brasseur F., Cooper CS., Flanagan AM., Green A., Knowles M., Leung SY., Looijenga LHJ., Malkowicz B., Pierotti MA., Teh B., Yuen ST., Nicholson AG., Lakhani S., Easton DF., Weber BL., Stratton MR., Futreal PA., Wooster R.
We examined the coding sequence of 518 protein kinases, ∼1.3 Mb of DNA per sample, in 25 breast cancers. In many tumors, we detected no somatic mutations. But a few had numerous somatic mutations with distinctive patterns indicative of either a mutator phenotype or a past exposure.