Intra- and Inter-Tumor Heterogeneity of BRAFV600EMutations in Primary and Metastatic Melanoma

The rationale for using small molecule inhibitors of oncogenic proteins as cancer therapies depends, at least in part, on the assumption that metastatic tumors are primarily clonal with respect to mutant oncogene. With the emergence of BRAFV600E as a therapeutic target, we investigated intra- and in...

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Main Authors: Yancovitz, Molly, Litterman, Adam, Yoon, Joanne, Ng, Elise, Shapiro, Richard L., Berman, Russell S., Pavlick, Anna C., Darvishian, Farbod, Christos, Paul, Mazumdar, Madhu, Osman, Iman, Polsky, David
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250426/