explored the frequency of KIT mutations in various melanoma subtypes, and their results, that KIT mutations were detected in 15.6% of mucosal melanomas, 7.7% of CMs, 1.7% of cutaneous melanomas, and 0% of UMs, was published in Clinical Cancer Research in 2008 and cited for 440 times (39). The gene discussed is KIT; the disease is cutaneous melanoma.