A landscape of driver mutations in melanoma.

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Published in Cell on July 20, 2012

Authors

Eran Hodis1, Ian R Watson, Gregory V Kryukov, Stefan T Arold, Marcin Imielinski, Jean-Philippe Theurillat, Elizabeth Nickerson, Daniel Auclair, Liren Li, Chelsea Place, Daniel Dicara, Alex H Ramos, Michael S Lawrence, Kristian Cibulskis, Andrey Sivachenko, Douglas Voet, Gordon Saksena, Nicolas Stransky, Robert C Onofrio, Wendy Winckler, Kristin Ardlie, Nikhil Wagle, Jennifer Wargo, Kelly Chong, Donald L Morton, Katherine Stemke-Hale, Guo Chen, Michael Noble, Matthew Meyerson, John E Ladbury, Michael A Davies, Jeffrey E Gershenwald, Stephan N Wagner, Dave S B Hoon, Dirk Schadendorf, Eric S Lander, Stacey B Gabriel, Gad Getz, Levi A Garraway, Lynda Chin

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1: The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

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