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KRAS and BRAF: drug targets and predictive biomarkers.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2011
Vakiani Efsevia, Solit David B
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Three decades have passed since RAS was first identified as the transformative factor in the Harvey and Kirsten strains of the mouse sarcoma virus. RAS and several of its downstream effectors, including BRAF, have since been shown to be commonly mutated in broad range of human cancers and biological studies have confirmed that RAS pathway activation promotes tumour initiation, progression and metastatic spread in...
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