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Table 2 Gene characteristics associated with the number of missense mutations per gene in univariate regression models

From: Gene characteristics predicting missense, nonsense and frameshift mutations in tumor samples

Predictor

T-test

P-value

Beta (ß)

Number of silent mutations in the gene

289.9

2.5 × 10− 1409

0.92

Number of potential missense mutation sites

167.5

5.8 × 10− 805

0.80

Gene size in nucleotides

167.1

1.6 × 10− 803

0.80

“reptime” from MutsigCV

28.6

1.4 × 10− 126

0.23

Relative replication time

−27.5

1.0 × 10− 124

0.21

Gene expression in CCLE cancer cell lines*

−26.5

9.6 × 10− 118

− 0.21

“hic” from MutsigCV

−24.5

6.6 × 10− 113

− 0.20

“expr” from MutsigCV

−16.8

1.5 × 10− 54

− 0.14

Percentage of “CpG”

− 16.3

1.7 × 10− 53

−0.02

Percentage of “G”

− 15.9

3.1 × 10− 51

−0.13

Nucleotide diversity

14.7

5.5 × 10− 45

0.12

Percentage of “A”

11.2

5.7 × 10− 28

0.10

Chromatin accessibility

−7.7

3.1 × 10− 51

−0.06

Percentage of “C”

−7.1

5.5 × 10− 45

− 0.06

Percentage of “T”

7.0

5.7 × 10− 28

0.06

Density of SNPs (1 K Genomes Project)

−3.7

1.6 × 10− 14

− 0.03

Evolutionary conservation

1.5

1.1 × 10− 12

0.01