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Fig. 2 | Genome Biology

Fig. 2

From: A novel independence test for somatic alterations in cancer shows that biology drives mutual exclusivity but chance explains most co-occurrence

Fig. 2

Histograms of P values obtained on simulated data using either the binomial test (a–d) or the DISCOVER test (e–h). The P values apply to gene pairs with three different types of relation: gene pairs with independent alterations (a, c, e, g), gene pairs with co-occurring alterations (b, f), and gene pairs with mutually exclusive alterations (d, h)

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