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Low prevalence of BRAF mutations in radiation-induced thyroid tumors in contrast to sporadic papillary carcinomas.
Cancer letters - 8 Jun 2004
Nikiforova Marina N, Ciampi Raffaele, Salvatore Giuliana, Santoro Massimo, Gandhi Manoj, Knauf Jeffrey A, Thomas Gerry A, Jeremiah Stephen, Bogdanova Tatyana I, Tronko Mykola D, Fagin James A, Nikiforov Yuri E
Abstract excerpt
Point mutations of the BRAF gene have been recently described with high prevalence in papillary thyroid carcinomas. However, this molecular alteration has not been studied in radiation-induced thyroid tumors. We analyzed the prevalence of BRAF point mutations and RET/PTC rearrangements in 55 post-Chernobyl papillary carcinomas, compared with 82 sporadic papillary carcinomas. Radiation-induced tumors demonstrated...
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