Variant Gene Risk Allele Score vda Association Type Original DB Sentence supporting the association PMID PMID Year
dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Control of BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma by BRAF inhibitor (BRAF-I) is limited by intrinsic and acquired resistance. 24732172

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Keratoacanthomas (KAs) and cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas (cuSCCs) develop in 15-30% of patients with BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma treated with BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi). 24345644

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Assessment of BRAF p.V600E mutational status has become necessary for treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma. 23651150

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Due to the BRAF (V600E) mutation in her tumor and her poor functional status, we offered her off-label treatment with vemurafenib, a BRAF inhibitor approved for use in metastatic melanoma. 24888229

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE A combination of dabrafenib and trametinib, as compared with dabrafenib alone, improved the rate of progression-free survival in previously untreated patients who had metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations. 25265492

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE IHC-measured BRAF(V600E) protein expression displays complete intertumoral homogeneity, minimal intertumoral intensity heterogeneity, and no intratumoral heterogeneity in metastatic melanoma patients in various stages of disease progression. 24335665

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Functional and symptom impact of trametinib versus chemotherapy in BRAF V600E advanced or metastatic melanoma: quality-of-life analyses of the METRIC study. 24504441

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Targeting MEK1/2 is proving to be an important therapeutic strategy, given that a MEK1/2 inhibitor provides a survival advantage in metastatic melanoma, an effect that is increased when administered together with a BRAF(V600E) inhibitor. 24717435

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The Braf(V600E) mutation has been detected in patients with metastatic melanoma, colon, thyroid, and other cancers. 24258977

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE B-Raf(V600E) inhibitors are an important anticancer drug class for metastatic melanoma therapy. 24901049

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE A phase I, randomized, open-label study of the multiple-dose pharmacokinetics of vemurafenib in patients with BRAF V600E mutation-positive metastatic melanoma. 24178368

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Studies presented or published during the European Society for Medical Oncology conference demonstrate that combining BRAF and MEK inhibitors improves progression-free and overall survival--and lowers the risk of resistance and toxicities--in patients with metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations. 25477091

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The phase III study of dabrafenib in BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma reported rapid tumor regression in most patients and a 59% objective RECIST response rate. 24583796

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE A 75-year-old woman was diagnosed with a BRAF V600E mutated metastatic melanoma. 25185693

2014

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Vemurafenib is an inhibitor of BRAF and is used to treat patients with metastatic melanoma who carry a V600E BRAF mutation. 23581649

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Detection of the BRAF V600E mutation is required for use of the BRAF inhibitor, vemurafenib, in patients with metastatic melanoma. 23994118

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE This study investigated the sensitivity and specificity of immunohistochemical (IHC) analysis using an anti-BRAF antibody to detect the presence of the BRAF V600E mutation in patients with metastatic melanoma. 23026937

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Immunohistochemical analysis of BRAF(V600E) expression of primary and metastatic melanoma and comparison with mutation status and melanocyte differentiation antigens of metastatic lesions. 23211290

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Results from a phase 3 trial (N=675) comparing vemurafenib 960 mg twice daily (taken either with or without food) to standard treatment dacarbazine (DTIC) in patients with BRAF V600E mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma were submitted. 23481513

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE This article summarises the milestones in the development of dabrafenib leading to this first approval as a single agent treatment for unresectable or metastatic melanoma in patients with the BRAF V600E mutation. 23881668

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Oral vemurafenib (Zelboraf(®)) is a first-in-class, small molecule BRAF(V600E) inhibitor indicated for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma in BRAF(V600) mutation-positive patients (EU) or BRAF(V600E) mutation-positive patients (USA). 23329082

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE V600E) and the subsequent development of specific BRAF inhibitors have greatly improved the treatment of metastatic melanoma. 23413975

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE The BRAF mutant, BRAF(V600E), is expressed in nearly half of melanomas, and oral BRAF inhibitors induce substantial tumor regression in patients with BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma. 23454771

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE BRAF(V600E) protein expression and outcome from BRAF inhibitor treatment in BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma. 23403819

2013

dbSNP: rs113488022
rs113488022
0.100 GeneticVariation BEFREE Vemurafenib is a new-targeted therapy approved for the treatment of patients with V600E BRAF-mutant metastatic melanoma. 23528218

2013