KRAS, NRAS and BRAF mutations in colorectal cancer and melanoma

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• 作者：Jonas Cicenas ; Linas Tamosaitis ; Kotryna Kvederaviciute…
• 关键词：KRAS ; NRAS ; BRAF ; GTPase ; Kinase ; Melanoma ; Colorectal cancer ; Squamous cell anal cancer ; Mutation
• 刊名：Medical Oncology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：34
• 期：2
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• 刊物主题：Oncology; Hematology; Pathology; Internal Medicine;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1559-131X
• 卷排序：34

文摘

Cancers are the group of diseases, which arise because of the uncontrolled behavior of some of the genes in our cells. There are possibilities of gene amplifications, overexpressions, deletions and other anomalies which might lead to the development and spread of cancer. One of the most dangerous ways to the cancers is the mutations of the genes. The mutated genes can start unstoppable proliferation of cells, their uncontrolled motility, protection from apoptosis, the DNA mutation enhancement as well as other anomalies, leading to the cancer. This review focuses on the genes, which are frequently mutated in various cancers and are known to be important in the advance and progression of colorectal cancer and melanoma, namely KRAS, NRAS and BRAF.