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BRAF and NRAS Locus-Specific Variants Have Different Outcomes on Survival to Colorectal Cancer.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Jun 2017
Summers Matthew G, Smith Christopher G, Maughan Timothy S, Kaplan Richard, Escott-Price Valentina, Cheadle Jeremy P
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Purpose: Somatic mutation status at KRAS, BRAF, and NRAS is associated with prognosis in patients with advanced colorectal cancer (aCRC); however, it remains unclear whether there are intralocus, variant-specific differences in survival and other clinicopathologic parameters.Experimental Design: We profiled 2,157 aCRCs for somatic mutations in KRAS, BRAF, and NRAS and determined microsatellite instability status....
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