Abstract:Introduction: Despite advancements made in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, the 5-year survival rate remains about 20%. The high mortality rate is thought to be due to there being no other clinically actionable targets other than those that have been identified in the RAS/RAF/MEK/MAPK pathway. Our analyses of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Skin Cutaneous Melanoma (SKCM) data set revealed that 15% of the cases harbor at least one nonsynonymous missense mutation in the ERBB4 gene. This mutation incidence is… Show more
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