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Smoking Correlates With Increased Cytoskeletal Protein-Related Coding Region Mutations In The Lung And Head And Neck Datasets Of The Cancer Genome Atlas, John M. Yavorski, George Blanck
Smoking Correlates With Increased Cytoskeletal Protein-Related Coding Region Mutations In The Lung And Head And Neck Datasets Of The Cancer Genome Atlas, John M. Yavorski, George Blanck
Molecular Medicine Faculty Publications
Cancer from smoking tobacco is considered dependent on mutagens, but significant molecular aspects of smoking-specific, cancer development remain unknown. We defined sets of coding regions for oncoproteins, tumor suppressor proteins, and cytoskeletal-related proteins that were compared between nonsmokers and smokers, for mutation occurrences, in the lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), head and neck squamous carcinoma (HNSC), bladder carcinoma (BLCA), and pancreatic adenocarcinoma ( PAAD) datasets from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA). We uncovered significant differences in overall mutation rates, and in mutation rates in cytoskeletal protein-related coding regions (CPCRs, including extracellular matrix protein coding regions), between nonsmokers and smokers in LUAD and …