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No mutations but an increased frequency of SDHx polymorphisms in patients with sporadic and familial medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Endocrine-related cancer - 1 Dec 2005
Montani M, Schmitt A M, Schmid S, Locher T, Saremaslani P, Heitz P U, Komminoth P, Perren A
Abstract excerpt
Germline mutations of the three succinate dehydrogenase subunits SDHB, SDHC and SDHD have recently been associated with familial pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma. Several reasons make these genes candidate tumor suppressor genes for medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC): (1) SDHB lies on chromosome 1p, the region known to be deleted most frequently in MTC, (2) MTCs develop from neural crest-derived cells, as do...
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