Different ras gene mutational frequencies in thyroid papillary carcinomas in Japan and Thailand.

doi:10.1016/s0304-3835(98)00149-9

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Different ras gene mutational frequencies in thyroid papillary carcinomas in Japan and Thailand.

Cancer letters - 25 Sept 1998

Naito H, Pairojkul C, Kitahori Y, Yane K, Miyahara H, Konishi N, Matsunaga T, Hiasa Y

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The incidence and pattern of ras oncogene mutations in human malignancies demonstrate geographic and racial differences. For example, specificity of alterations is found in cholangiocellular carcinomas in Thai patients with a different etiology from those in Japanese patients. In the present stud...

Topics

Adult
Aged
Carcinoma, Papillary
Child
Female
Genes, ras
Humans
Japan
Male
Middle Aged
Mutation
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Single-Stranded Conformational
Thailand
Thyroid Neoplasms

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