Duplication of 9 base pairs in the critical cysteine rich domain of the ret proto-oncogene causes multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A

Human Mutation

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL 1, 1998, Pages

  Höppner, Wolfgang ^a   Dralle, Henning ^b   Brabant, Georg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; ONCOPROTEIN; PROTEIN RET; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; RET ONCOGENE PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; SIPPLE SYNDROME; ADULT; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; BASE PAIRING; CATECHOLAMINE URINE LEVEL; CLINICAL FEATURE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; HEMATURIA; HYPERTENSION; NEUROFIBROMATOSIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CYSTEINE; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EXONS; GENE DUPLICATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE ENDOCRINE NEOPLASIA TYPE 2A; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-RET; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES;

EID: 0031984908     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.1380110143     Document Type: Article

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