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Mutation of RET proto-oncogene in Japanese patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B and sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma.
Endocrine journal - 1 Aug 1997
Migita M, Hiromatsu Y, Sato M, Yang D, Kameo J, Jimi A, Nonaka K
Abstract excerpt
To determine whether patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) develop other endocrine neoplasms or their relatives develop MTC, we investigated the mutations in the RET proto-oncogene in patients with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B (MEN 2B, N = 1) and sporadic MTC (N = 6). DNA from M...
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