Mutations in the RAS-BRAF-MAPK-ERK pathway define a specific subgroup of patients with adverse clinical features and provide new therapeutic options in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

This study was supported by the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Grant n. SAF2015-67633-R ,and PI16/00420 which are part of Plan Nacional de I+D+I and are co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER-“Una manera de hacer Europa”) and the CERCA program from Generalitat Catalunya. European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement n. 306240; Generalitat de Catalunya Suport Grups de Recerca AGAUR 2017-SGR1009, and Departament de Salut (SLT002-16-00350), Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) International Cancer Genome Consortium for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (ICGC-CLL Genome Project), and project PM15/00007, which is part of Plan Nacional de I+D+I and are co-financed by FEDER. NG is a recipient of a predoctoral fellowship from Agaur and EC is an Academia Researcher of the "Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats" (ICREA) of the Generalitat de Catalunya.