highly significantp = 3.8 E − 5
4d , left); an increase in mutational frequency with age was highly significant for males ( p = 3.8 E − 5 ), but not for females.
4d , left); an increase in mutational frequency with age was highly significant for males ( p = 3.8 E − 5 ), but not for females.
In addition, a marginally significant potential hotspot (E132; three mutations, p = 0.018) is located in the α-helix between two amino acid motifs (G4, NKXD and G5, EXSAK) that are important for binding the guanine base of the nucleotide 32 .
For HRAS, no new hotspots were unequivocally identified, although two residues (R164 and P167) were borderline significant (Fig. 2c ).
However, these findings did not reach statistical significance due to lower overall numbers, with only 44/235 (18.5%) of MT-H patients <40 years (Supplementary Fig. 4c ); further, trends based on analysis of age as continuous variable were not conclusive (Supplementary Fig. 4d ).