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A gene predisposing to familial thyroid tumors with cell oxyphilia maps to chromosome 19p13.2.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 1998
Canzian F, Amati P, Harach H R, Kraimps J L, Lesueur F, Barbier J, Levillain P, Romeo G, Bonneau D
Abstract excerpt
Familial nonmedullary thyroid cancer (FNMTC) is a clinical entity characterized by a phenotype more aggressive than that of its sporadic counterpart. Families with recurrence of nonmedullary thyroid cancer (NMTC) have been repeatedly reported in the literature, and epidemiological data show a very high relative risk for first-degree relatives of probands with thyroid cancer. The transmission of susceptibility to...
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