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A genome-scale RNA interference screen implicates NF1 loss in resistance to RAF inhibition.
Cancer discovery - 1 Mar 2013
Whittaker Steven R, Theurillat Jean-Philippe, Van Allen Eliezer, Wagle Nikhil, Hsiao Jessica, Cowley Glenn S, Schadendorf Dirk, Root David E, Garraway Levi A
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RAF inhibitors such as vemurafenib and dabrafenib block BRAF-mediated cell proliferation and achieve meaningful clinical benefit in the vast majority of patients with BRAF(V600E)-mutant melanoma. However, some patients do not respond to this regimen, and nearly all progress to therapeutic resista...
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