Distinguishing Driver and Passenger Mutations in an Evolutionary History Categorized by Interference

In many biological scenarios, from the development of drug resistance in pathogens to the progression of healthy cells toward cancer, quantifying the selection acting on observed mutations is a central question. One difficulty in answering this question is the complexity of the background upon which...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Illingworth, Christopher J. R., Mustonen, Ville
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Genetics Society of America 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3213378/