Article
Ultra-rare mutation in long-range enhancer predisposes to thyroid carcinoma with high penetrance.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
He Huiling, Li Wei, Wu Dayong, Nagy Rebecca, Liyanarachchi Sandya, Akagi Keiko, Jendrzejewski Jaroslaw, Jiao Hong, Hoag Kevin, Wen Bernard, Srinivas Mukund, Waidyaratne Gavisha, Wang Rui, Wojcicka Anna, Lattimer Ilene R, Stachlewska Elzbieta, Czetwertynska Malgorzata, Dlugosinska Joanna, Gierlikowski Wojciech, Ploski Rafal, Krawczyk Marek, Jazdzewski Krystian, Kere Juha, Symer David E, Jin Victor, Wang Qianben, de la Chapelle Albert
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid cancer shows high heritability but causative genes remain largely unknown. According to a common hypothesis the genetic predisposition to thyroid cancer is highly heterogeneous; being in part due to many different rare alleles. Here we used linkage analysis and targeted deep sequencing to...
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