False-positive genes with high frequency mutation
Mutational heterogeneity in cancer and the search for new cancer-associated genes
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12213
After recognizing the problem of apparent false-positive findings, we reviewed the published literature and found that some of these potentially spurious genes have already been nominated as cancer-associated genes in recently published cancer genome studies: for example, LRP1B in glioblastoma and lung adenocarcinoma; CSMD3 in ovarian cancer; PCLO in DLBCL; MUC16 in lung squamous carcinoma11, breast cancer and DLBCL; MUC4 in melanoma; olfactory receptor OR2L13 in glioblastoma14; and TTN in breast cancer and other tumour types. We therefore set out to understand the source of the problem.



