RET/PTC rearrangements arising from a small population of papillary thyroid carcinoma cells, possible candidate for passenger mutation

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 455, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-41

  Nakazawa, Tadao ^a   Murata, Shin Ichi ^b   Kondo, Tetsuo ^a   Niu, Dongfeng ^a   Mochizuki, Kunio ^a   Kawasaki, Tomonori ^a   Yamane, Tetsu ^a   Nakamura, Nobuki ^a   Katoh, Ryohei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^b SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interphase FISH; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; RET rearrangements; RT PCR; TTF 1

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ONCOGENE RET; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HISTONES; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, FUSION; PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67650753572     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-009-0789-8     Document Type: Article

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