Screening of six risk exons of the RET proto-oncogene in families with medullary thyroid carcinoma in the Czech Republic

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Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) occurs as a sporadic form (75%) or as an autosomal dominant inherited familial disorder (25%) called familial MTC (FMTC) or as multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN2) syndromes. Germ-line mutations in the rearranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene in exons 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 16 are known to be a cause of most of the familial forms. In this paper we report...

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