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Unusual features of thyroid carcinomas in Japanese patients with Werner syndrome and possible genotype-phenotype relations to cell type and race.
Cancer - 15 Mar 1999
Ishikawa Y, Sugano H, Matsumoto T, Furuichi Y, Miller R W, Goto M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Werner syndrome (WS), an autosomal recessive disease characterized by premature aging, has a high frequency of association with six rare neoplasms in Japanese patients, and only four of these neoplasms also occur excessively in whites. Several differ from what is usual in their epidem...
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