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Mutation of the RET protooncogene in sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Mar 1995
Eng C, Mulligan L M, Smith D P, Healey C S, Frilling A, Raue F, Neumann H P, Pfragner R, Behmel A, Lorenzo M J
Abstract excerpt
Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) occurs sporadically or as part of the inherited cancer syndrome multiple endocrine neoplasia (MEN) type 2. In MEN 2A, germline missense mutations are found in one of five cysteine codons within exons 10 and 11 in the extracellular domain of the RET protooncogene. In MEN 2B, germline mutations occur in codon 918 (exon 16) within the catalytic core of the tyrosine kinase domain. To...
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