Assessment of the BRAF status in patients with skin melanoma



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Skin melanoma is an aggressive malignant neoplasm. Mutation of the BRAF gene, BRAF V600E, is observed in more than
70% of melanoma cases. Assessment of the BRAF status in patients suffering from skin melanoma is an important stage
in patient screening for selection of further therapy.
To reveal the mutation of BRAF V600E, 27 histology samples taken from patients with skin melanoma residing in the
Krasnodar territory were examined by means of defining the Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (PFLP assay).
Our studies revealed the BRAF V600E mutation in 26 of 27 histology samples of skin melanoma. It was shown that the
mutation is not associated with any sex-related, age-related, clinical and pathological features of the tumor.

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