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Nature Genetics 40, 1149 - 1150 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ng1008-1149

Kras and Hras—what is the difference?

Anton Berns1

  1. Anton Berns is at the Division of Molecular Genetics, Centre for Biomedical Genetics and Cancer Genomics Centre, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, 1066CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
    e-mail: a.berns@nki.nl


Kras, Hras or Nras mutations occur at varying frequencies across different tumors in humans for unknown reasons. A new study shows that, in mice, locus-specific regulatory elements determine whether mutations in Hras or Kras will predominate in lung and skin tumors.

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