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Lucky draw in the gene raffle

The Cancer Genome Project intends to search every human gene for cancer-related mutations. Its first success is the discovery of such mutations in the BRAF gene.

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Figure 1: The BRAF protein and signal transduction.

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Pollock, P., Meltzer, P. Lucky draw in the gene raffle. Nature 417, 906–907 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/417906a

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