Then, in a second part, we focused on cell cycle genes that were found to be differentially involved between groups and screened a large series of 98 NSCLC for genetic alterations at CCND1, CCNE1, CDKN2A and RB1. Alterations were studied according to other known mutations (EGFR, ERBB2, BRAF, KRAS, TP53 and STK11). Here, EGFR is linked to non-small cell lung carcinoma.