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Andrea Sottoriva, Trevor Graham and colleagues analyze tumor sequencing data and show that a substantial proportion of cancers of many different types are characterized by neutral evolution resulting in a characteristic power-law distribution of the mutant allele frequencies. This neutral framework provides a new way to interpret cancer genomic data and to discriminate between functional and non-functional intratumoral heterogeneity.
