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Screening of RET gene mutations in Chinese patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma and their relatives.
Familial cancer - 1 Jan 2016
Wang Junyi, Zhang Bin, Liu Wensheng, Zhang Yongxia, Di Xuebing, Yang Yanmei, Yan Dangui
Abstract excerpt
The rearranged during transfection (RET) gene is a proto-oncogene; active mutations frequently occur in medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). This study investigated the spectrum of germline RET mutations and clinical features in Chinese hereditary MTC patients. A total of 53 family members from 11 different hereditary MTC families were recruited for detection of RET exon 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 16 mutations, in...
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