Determinants of BRAF mutations in primary melanomas

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 95, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 1878-1880

  Maldonado, Janet L ^a   Fridlyand, Jane ^a,b   Patel, Hetal ^b   Jain, Ajay N ^a,b   Busam, Klaus ^c   Kageshita, Toshiro ^d   Ono, Tomomichi ^d   Albertson, Donna G ^a,b   Pinkel, Dan ^a,b   Bastian, Boris C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^d KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; RAS PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER INVASION; CHROMOSOME 7Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FISHER EXACT TEST; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC SELECTION; GLABROUS SKIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MUCOSA; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN CARCINOGENESIS; SKIN DEFECT; SOMATIC MUTATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUN EXPOSURE;

EID: 0346728596     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djg123     Document Type: Article

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