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Presentation of a kindred with familial medullary thyroid carcinoma and Cys611Phe mutation of the RET proto-oncogene demonstrating low grade malignancy.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 May 2001
Siggelkow H, Melzer A, Nolte W, Karsten K, Hoppner W, Hufner M
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OBJECTIVE: Both multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A (MEN 2A) and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma (FMTC) are caused by germline mutations of the RET proto-oncogene. A broad spectrum of malignancy within and between families has been described with no clear genotype-phenotype correlation due to a scarcity of available data of large kindreds. DESIGN: Here we present the only known family with a germline...
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