TMB is defined as the total number of base substitutions, insertions, and deletions per million bases in the coding region [24 (link)]. The TMB of each sample was calculated by the “tmb” function in the maftools package [21 (link)]. In addition, we recruited multiple measures, including neoantigens, SNV neoantigens, nonsilent mutation rate, and TCR Shannon from Thorsson V et al., to assess differences in overall genomic instability and immune status between the two groups [25 (link)].
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