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High prevalence of BRAF gene mutation in papillary thyroid carcinomas and thyroid tumor cell lines.
Cancer research - 1 Aug 2003
Xu Xiulong, Quiros Roderick M, Gattuso Paolo, Ain Kenneth B, Prinz Richard A
Abstract excerpt
The RAS-RAF-MEK-ERK-MAP kinase pathway mediates the cellular response to extracellular signals that regulate cell proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis. Mutation of the RAS proto-oncogene occurs in various thyroid neoplasms such as papillary thyroid carcinomas (PTCs), follicular thyroid a...
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