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Allelotyping of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: frequent allelic losses on 1q, 9p, 11, 17, 19p, and 22q.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Mar 2000
Kitamura Y, Shimizu K, Tanaka S, Ito K, Emi M
Abstract excerpt
Little is known about the genetic mechanisms behind the genesis of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. This is among the most virulent of all human malignancies, and it is believed to result most often from transformation of differentiated thyroid carcinomas of the papillary type. So far, TP53 and beta-catenin mutations are the only genetic alterations that have been implicated in its pathogenesis. To identify loci of...
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