Point mutation in GRIM-19: A new genetic lesion in Hurthle cell thyroid carcinomas

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 92, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1817-1818

  Fusco, A ^a,b   Viglietto, G ^b,c   Santoro, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GRIM 19 PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN GW112; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEIN; GRIM19 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT;

ANEUPLOIDY; EDITORIAL; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GRIM 19 GENE; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; ONCOCYTOMA; PATHOGENESIS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID PARAFOLLICULAR CELL; APOPTOSIS; GENETICS; MITOCHONDRION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20344381555     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6602556     Document Type: Editorial

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