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A.S. is supported by the Chris Rokos Fellowship in Evolution and Cancer. B.W. is supported by the Geoffrey W. Lewis Post-Doctoral Training Fellowship. This work was supported by the Wellcome Trust (105104/Z/14/Z). C.P.B. acknowledges funding from the Wellcome Trust through a Research Career Developmental Fellowship (097319/Z/11/Z). This work was supported by a Cancer Research UK Career Developmental Award to T.A.G. M.J.W. is supported by a UK Medical Research Council student fellowship.
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Williams, M., Werner, B., Barnes, C. et al. Reply: Uncertainties in tumor allele frequencies limit power to infer evolutionary pressures. Nat Genet 49, 1289–1291 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.3877
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