page_title: COSMIC cancer database
section_title: Examples
hierarchical_section_title: COSMIC cancer database / Process / Examples
caption_attribution_description: English: This image was obtained from the COSMIC cancer database. A public domain database. It shows mutation data for the CDKN2A gene. Further information can be found here.
context_page_description: COSMIC is an online database of somatically acquired mutations found in human cancer. Somatic mutations are those that occur in non-germline cells that are not inherited by children. COSMIC, an acronym of Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer, curates data from papers in the scientific literature and large scale experimental screens from the Cancer Genome Project at the Sanger Institute. The database is freely available to academic researchers and commercially licensed to others.
context_section_description: The figure shows the CDKN2A gene, which is a tumor suppressor that leads to cancer when it is inactivated.
caption: A histogram showing the mutation range for the CDKN2A gene as produced by the COSMIC database.[8]
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