Gene
BRD4
bromodomain containing 4
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Curated evidence
Clinical evidence (3)
CIViC items involving this gene, grouped by molecular profile and therapy, with native levels and directions. 50 items per page.
- Source
- CIViC — Clinical Interpretation of Variants in Cancer
- Dataset
- CIViC evidence items
- Version
- civic-2026-09-08
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Evidence
- expert curation
- License
- CC0 1.0
- PMID
- 29650805
- Run
- ING-CIVIC-20260908-000001
| Therapy | Cancer | Type | Level | Direction · significance | Rating (1–5) | Status | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRD4 Overexpression3 | ||||||||
| Unspecified therapy | Melanoma | Predictive | D | Supports Sensitivity Response | 3 | submitted | EID9315BET inhibitor JQ-1 induced a decrease in viability to NRAS mutant melanoma cells with an increase in sensitivity in those highly expressing BRD4 in comparison to BRD2 and BRD3 expression (P = 0.018); … (full text at CIViC) PMID 29650805 · Echevarría-Vargas et al., 2018 · Open in CIViC | civic |
| JQ1 | Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma | Predictive | D | Supports Sensitivity Response | 2 | submitted | EID2957Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) remains an intractable genitourinary malignancy. Resistance to chemotherapy or targeted therapies in RCC is presumably due to the complicated underlying molecular mechanisms… (full text at CIViC) PMID 28391274 · Wu et al., 2017 · Open in CIViC | |
Cohorts
Alteration frequency by cohort (137)
Frequency = cases affected / cases profiled within one cohort. Cohorts are never pooled.
- Source
- cBioPortal for Cancer Genomics (public studies)
- Dataset
- cBioPortal mutated genes by study
- Version
- cbioportal-2026-09-01
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Evidence
- cohort
- License
- ODC Open Database License (ODC-ODbL) unless otherwise noted per study; attribution to the original studies required
- PMID
- 36355783
- Run
- ING-CBIOPORTAL-20260908-000001
| Cohort | Mapped cancer | Alteration | Affected (n) | Profiled (n) | Frequency (%) | Rank in cohort | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colorectal Cancer (MSK, Cancer Discovery 2022) coadread_mskresistance_2022 | Colorectal Adenocarcinoma | Ssm |
Literature
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