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Specifying the molecular pattern of sporadic parathyroid tumorigenesis-The Y282D variant of the GCM2 gene.
Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie - 1 Aug 2017
Marchiori Elena, Pelizzo Maria Rosa, Herten Monika, Townsend Danyelle M, Rubello Domenico, Boschin Isabella Merante
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OBJECTIVE: Sporadic carcinoma of the parathyroid glands is a rare malignant neoplasia. The GCM2 gene encodes a transcription factor that is crucial to embryonic parathyroid development. The Y282D variant of GCM2 exhibits increased transcriptional activity, and the presence of this variant is significantly associated with a higher prevalence of primitive hyperparathyroidism. The present study investigated the...
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