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List of mutational signatures' proposed etiology summarized from COSMIC, Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer (v3.5 - November 2025)

Source: R/etiology.R
etiology.Rd

Deprecated. The etiology information is no longer being updated. It is not versioned at the COSMIC website and may not reflect signatures added in recent COSMIC releases. For authoritative, up-to-date etiologies consult https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/signatures/ directly.

Usage

etiology

Format

A list with the elements:

  • SBS96

  • DBS78

  • ID

Each element is a single-column matrix with rownames being the signature IDs and values being a short string describing the proposed etiology.

In general use get_etiology, which handles new signatures do not have an element in etiology.

Source

https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/signatures/.

Examples

sbs96_etiology <- etiology$SBS96