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Current concepts in RET-related genetics, signaling and therapeutics.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 Nov 2006
Plaza-Menacho Ivan, Burzynski Grzegorz M, de Groot Jan Willem, Eggen Bart J L, Hofstra Robert M W
Abstract excerpt
The receptor tyrosine kinase RET is expressed in cell lineages derived from the neural crest and has a key role in regulating cell proliferation, migration, differentiation and survival during embryogenesis. Germline and somatic mutations in RET that produce constitutively activated receptors cause the cancer syndrome multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2 and several endocrine and neural-crest-derived tumors,...
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