Table 1. Sources of genes mutated in different cancer types.
| Name of study | Tumour type(s) screened |
|---|---|
| Databases | |
| Cancer Gene Census (Futreal et al, 2004) | Many |
| OMIM (Hamosh et al, 2005) | Many |
| COSMIC (Forbes et al, 2008) | Many |
| Gene-set resequencing studies | |
| Bardelli et al (2003) | Colorectal |
| Wang et al (2004) | Colorectal |
| Stephens et al (2005) | Breast |
| Davies et al (2005) | Lung |
| Greenman et al (2007) | Many |
| Thomas et al (2007) | Many |
| Loriaux et al (2008) | Acute myeloid leukaemia |
| Tomasson et al (2008) | Acute myeloid leukaemia |
| Cancer Genome Atlas (Research Network, 2008) | Glioblastoma |
| Ding et al (2008) | Lung |
| Whole-genome resequencing studies | |
| Wood et al (2007) | Breast and colorectal |
| Jones et al (2008) | Pancreas |
| Ley et al (2008) | Acute myeloid leukaemia |
| Parsons et al (2008) | Glioblastoma |
| Pleasance et al (2010b) | Lung |
| Pleasance et al (2010a) | Melanoma |
| Dalgliesh et al (2010) | Renal |
| COSMIC, Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer; OMIM, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man. | |