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Chinese siblings with hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma caused by RET mutation: implications for RET oncogene detection.
BMC endocrine disorders - 14 May 2020
Huang Qin, Hu Aihua, Zhang Mingsheng
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is mainly caused by germline mutations in the RET proto-oncogene, which accounts for 20-30% of all MTC according to foreign studies. However, no English literatures have reported Chinese hereditary MTC. Here, we reported two Chinese brothers with MTC that caused by germline RET mutation. CASE PRESENTATION: The younger brother was diagnosed with MTC at...
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