G-protein mutations in thyroid tumors.

doi:10.1055/s-0029-1211167

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G-protein mutations in thyroid tumors.

Experimental and clinical endocrinology - 1 Jan 1992

Goretzki P E, Simon D, Röher H D

Abstract excerpt

Tissue specific G-protein mutations have been found in differentiated thyroid cancer with a higher prevalence in tumors from German than from American patients. Since activating mutations of Gs are principally comparable to chronic TSH stimulation of these tumor-thyrocytes such mutations may pred...

Topics

GTP-Binding Proteins
Humans
Mutation
Thyroid Neoplasms

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