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A comprehensive overview of the role of the RET proto-oncogene in thyroid carcinoma.
Nature reviews. Endocrinology - 1 Apr 2016
Romei Cristina, Ciampi Raffaele, Elisei Rossella
Abstract excerpt
The rearranged during transfection (RET) proto-oncogene was identified in 1985 and, very soon thereafter, a rearrangement named RET/PTC was discovered in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). After this discovery, other RET rearrangements were found in PTCs, particularly in those induced by radiation. For many years, it was thought that these genetic alterations only occurred in PTC, but, in the past couple of...
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