Molecular genetics and diagnosis of thyroid cancer

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 569-580

  Nikiforov, Yuri E ^a   Nikiforova, Marina N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B;

CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EPIGENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTO ONCOGENE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; THYROID CANCER;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY, FOLLICULAR; HUMANS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053150200     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2011.142     Document Type: Review

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