Low prevalence of the ret/PTC3r1 rearrangement in a series of papillary thyroid carcinomas presenting in Belarus ten years post-chernobyl

Thyroid

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1003-1008

  Pisarchik, A V ^a   Ermak, G ^b   Demidchik, E P ^c   Mikhalevich, L S ^a   Kartel, N A ^a   Figge, J ^d,e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GENETICS AND CYTOLOGY   (Belarus)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Thyroid Cancer Center   (Belarus)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e St Peter's Hospital Albany   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

ARTICLE; BELARUS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

EID: 0031797367     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1998.8.1003     Document Type: Article

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