Driver mutations provide a growth advantage to a tumor cell. Which type of mutation is known to accumulate in cancer cells but has no direct contribution to the cancer phenotype?

A) induced mutations
B) indirect mutations
C) carrier mutations
D) alteration mutations
E) passenger mutations


E

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