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Skewed mutational spectrum of RET proto-oncogene Exon10 in Iranian patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Jul 2015
Yeganeh Marjan Zarif, Sheikholeslami Sara, Dehbashi Behbahani Golnoush, Farashi Samaneh, Hedayati Mehdi
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignant tumor. Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is an aggressive tumor arising from calcitonin-producing parafollicular cells. MTC has autosomal dominant inheritance and accounts for 5-10 % of all thyroid cancers. It occurs in hereditary (25 %, hMTC) and sporadic (75 %, sMTC) forms. Gain-of-function mutations in the REarranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene...
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