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Central role of RET in thyroid cancer.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology - 1 Dec 2013
Santoro Massimo, Carlomagno Francesca
Abstract excerpt
RET (rearranged during transfection) is a receptor tyrosine kinase involved in the development of neural crest derived cell lineages, kidney, and male germ cells. Different human cancers, including papillary and medullary thyroid carcinomas, lung adenocarcinomas, and myeloproliferative disorders display gain-of-function mutations in RET. Accordingly, RET protein has become a promising molecular target for cancer...
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