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No evidence of ARAF, CRAF and MET mutations in BRAFT1799A negative human papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Endocrine journal - 1 Oct 2006
Kumagai Atsushi, Namba Hiroyuki, Takakura Shu, Inamasu Eiko, Saenko Vladimir A, Ohtsuru Akira, Yamashita Shunichi
Abstract excerpt
The MAPK signaling pathway plays a crucial role in tumorgenesis and cell proliferation in human papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Ret/PTC rearrangements, RAS and BRAF mutations, the main non-overlapping genetic alterations all leading to MAPK cascade activation, are cumulatively identified in 60...
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