KRAS and familial pancreatic carcinoma: In the last decade, the advancement of molecular biology improved the understanding of the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer and characterized a number of genes that mutated in pancreatic cancers, such as somatic mutations in genes INK4A(CDKN2A), TP53, DPC4, BRCA1/2, STK11, APC, KRAS and ATM and PALB2 are found in pancreatic cancers [10]–[18].