BRAF Gene Damage Identified as a Cause of the Skin Cancer

One of the main risk factors for skin cancer is severe sunburn. It is ultraviolet light (mainly UV-B) from the sun (or other sources like lights in tanning salons) that causes damage of DNA and thus skin cancer.
Damage of BRAF gene in skin cells may be responsible for developing melanoma type of skin cancer in human (according to finding of [...]