Article
Exome analysis of carotid body tumor.
BMC medical genomics - 13 Feb 2018
Snezhkina Anastasiya V, Lukyanova Elena N, Kalinin Dmitry V, Pokrovsky Anatoly V, Dmitriev Alexey A, Koroban Nadezhda V, Pudova Elena A, Fedorova Maria S, Volchenko Nadezhda N, Stepanov Oleg A, Zhevelyuk Ekaterina A, Kharitonov Sergey L, Lipatova Anastasiya V, Abramov Ivan S, Golovyuk Alexander V, Yegorov Yegor E, Vishnyakova Khava S, Moskalev Alexey A, Krasnov George S, Melnikova Nataliya V, Shcherbo Dmitry S, Kiseleva Marina V, Kaprin Andrey D, Alekseev Boris Y, Zaretsky Andrew R, Kudryavtseva Anna V
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Carotid body tumor (CBT) is a form of head and neck paragangliomas (HNPGLs) arising at the bifurcation of carotid arteries. Paragangliomas are commonly associated with germline and somatic mutations involving at least one of more than thirty causative genes. However, the specific functionality of a number of these genes involved in the formation of paragangliomas has not yet been fully investigated....
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