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Table 5 Gene characteristics associated with the number of missense, nonsense and frameshift mutations analyzed together in univariate linear regression model

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

265.2

3.6x− 1328

0.90

Gene size in nucleotides

172.5

2.7x− 856

0.81

“reptime” from MutsigCV

28.0

2.1x− 128

0.23

Relative replication time

−26.8

6.5x− 120

− 0.21

Gene expression in CCLE cancer cell lines*

−24.8

1.2x− 106

− 0.19

“hic” from MutsigCV

−23.8

8.0x− 100

− 0.19

Percentage of “CpG”

−17.9

1.8x− 62

− 0.14

Percentage of “G”

− 17.7

1.8x− 61

− 0.14

“expr” from MutsigCV

−17.0

3.1x−57

− 0.14

Percentage of “A”

15.3

7.3x− 48

0.12

Nucleotide diversity

14.4

4.9x− 43

0.11

Percentage of “C”

−9.0

5.6x−19

− 0.07

Percentage of “T”

8.0

1.6x− 15

0.06

Chromatin accessibility

− 7.5

1.0x− 13

− 0.06

Density of SNPs (1 K Genomes Project)

−4.7

1.6x− 6

−0.04

Evolutionary conservation

2.4

8.4x−3

0.02