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==Common Alteration Types==
==Common Alteration Types==
The ''TP53'' gene contains homozygous mutations in about 50-60% of human cancers. About 90% of the mutations in ''TP53'' encode missense mutant proteins that span about 190 codons in the DNA-binding domain; none of the 50 most common pathogenic missense mutations occur outside of the DNA-binding region. These mutations produce a protein with a reduced capacity to bind to a specific DNA sequence that regulates p53 transcriptional pathway [15]. The eight most common mutations across all cancer types (R175H, R248Q, R273H, R248W, R273C, R282W, G245S, R249S) are found in codons that account for about 28% of the total p53 mutations (See Table 1 in [15]); these alleles appear to be selected for preferentially in human cancers of many tissue types. Seven of the eight mutations occur at methylated CpG sites in ''TP53'', which encode arginine residues that contact the DNA and are conserved over evolutionary time scales [15].
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