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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jan 28.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2016 Jan 21;164(3):538–549. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.12.050

Figure 6. R-class asymmetries associated with APOBEC and MSI.

Figure 6

(A) Bladder, breast, and head-and-neck cohorts. Samples with highest enrichment of APOBEC signature show highest replicative asymmetry of C→G mutations. (B) APOBEC-enriched samples are dominated by replicative asymmetry (as Fig. 1E,F) (C) Proposed model: APOBEC deaminates cytosine to uracil on the ssDNA of the lagging-strand template during DNA replication. (D) R-class asymmetry in MSS, MSI, and POLE-mutant cohorts. MSS samples have little asymmetry. Loss of MMR or pol ε proofreading leads to imbalance in mutations between the leading and lagging strands.