Reply to: Low prevalence of BRAF mutations in radiation-induced thyroid tumors in contrast to sporadic papillary carcinomas

Cancer Letters

Volumn 230, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 149-150

  Lima, Jorge ^a,b   Trovisco, Vítor ^a,b   Soares, Paula ^a,b   Máximo, Valdemar ^a   Magalhães, João ^a,c   Salvatore, Giuliana ^d   Santoro, Massimo ^d   Bogdanova, Tatyana ^e   Tronko, Mykola ^e   Abrosimov, Alexander ^a,f   Jeremiah, Steve ^g   Thomas, Gerry ^g   Williams, Dillwyn ^h   Sobrinho Simões, Manuel ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b University of Porto   (Portugal)

^c HOSPITAL DE SÃO JOÃO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^e V P Komisarenko Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Ukraine Academy of Medical Sciences   (Ukraine)

^f INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^g SINGLETON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

BRAF mutation; Chernobyl; Ionizing radiation; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; PROTEIN RET;

ARTICLE; CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT; CODON; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ACCIDENT; RADIATION INJURY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID FOLLICLE CELL; THYROID TUMOR;

EID: 27144439247     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2004.10.053     Document Type: Letter

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2. J. Lima, V. Trovisco, P. Soares, V. Máximo, J. Magalhães, and G. Salvatore BRAF mutations are not a major event in post-Chernobyl childhood thyroid carcinomas J. Clin. Endocrinol. Metab. 89 2004 4267 4271
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