Marketa Tomkova

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Group Leader at the Ludwig Cancer Research Institute, University of Oxford. Excited about cancer genomics, epigenomics, omics data integration, interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Mutational and non-mutational/epigenetic cancer driver mechanisms.

What is the most common type of mutations, causing cancer and genetic diseases? C to T mutations in CpGs: Signature 1. What is the best understood mutational signature? Signature 1. Or is it? An intro thread about a paper we published last year... 🧵1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Human DNA polymerase ε is a source of C>T mutations at CpG dinucleotides - Nature Genetics

A new method called polymerase error rate sequencing (PER-seq) can measure the nucleotide misincorporation rate of DNA polymerases. DNA polymerase ε mutants produce an excess of CpG<TpG errors duri...

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