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Overview

MYC is one of a number of genes affected by aberrant somatic hypermutation in B-cell lymphomas, which complicates the interpretation of mutations at this locus.

Relevance tier by entity

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Mutation incidence in large patient cohorts (GAMBL reanalysis)

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Mutation pattern and selective pressure estimates

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aSHM regions

chr_name hg19_start hg19_end region regulatory_comment
chr8 128748352 128749427 TSS active_promoter

MYC Hotspots

Chromosome Coordinate (hg19) ref>alt HGVSp
chr8 128750677 C>A P72T
chr8 128750677 C>G P72A
chr8 128750677 C>T P72S
chr8 128750677 CC>TT P72F
chr8 128750678 C>G P72R
chr8 128750678 C>T P72L
chr8 128750680 A>G T73A
chr8 128750681 C>A T73N
chr8 128750681 C>T T73I
chr8 128750681 CC>AT T73N
chr8 128750681 CC>GT T73S
chr8 128750681 CC>TA T73I
chr8 128750681 CC>TG T73M
chr8 128750681 CC>TT T73I
chr8 128750683 C>G P74A
chr8 128750683 C>T P74S
chr8 128750684 C>T P74L
chr8 128750686 C>A P75T
chr8 128750686 C>G P75A
chr8 128750686 C>T P75S
chr8 128750686 CC>TT P75F
chr8 128750687 C>A P75H
chr8 128750687 C>G P75R
chr8 128750692 T>C S77P
chr8 128750692 T>G S77A
chr8 128750693 C>G S77C
chr8 128750695 C>T P78S
chr8 128750696 C>G P78R

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Expression

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