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Overview

WEE1 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

Entity Tier Description
PMBL 1 high-confidence PMBL/cHL/GZL gene1
DLBCL 1 aSHM target and high-confidence DLBCL gene2

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
chr11 9595246 9599502 intron NA

WEE1 Hotspots

Chromosome Coordinate (hg19) ref>alt HGVSp
chr11 9595762 G>C L94F
chr11 9595887 G>A S136N
chr11 9595888 C>G S136R
chr11 9595889 T>G S137A

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Expression

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References

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Schmitz R, Wright GW, Huang DW, Johnson CA, Phelan JD, Wang JQ, Roulland S, Kasbekar M, Young RM, Shaffer AL, Hodson DJ, Xiao W, Yu X, Yang Y, Zhao H, Xu W, Liu X, Zhou B, Du W, Chan WC, Jaffe ES, Gascoyne RD, Connors JM, Campo E, Lopez-Guillermo A, Rosenwald A, Ott G, Delabie J, Rimsza LM, Tay Kuang Wei K, Zelenetz AD, Leonard JP, Bartlett NL, Tran B, Shetty J, Zhao Y, Soppet DR, Pittaluga S, Wilson WH, Staudt LM. Genetics and Pathogenesis of Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma. N Engl J Med. 2018 Apr 12;378(15):1396–1407. PMCID: PMC6010183

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Krysta Coyle, Kostiantyn Dreval, Daniel Hodson and Ryan D. Morin. Audit of B-cell cancer genes. Blood Adv (2025) 9 (8): 2019–2031.

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