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Molecular rearrangements in papillary thyroid carcinomas.
Clin. Chim. Acta 411, 301-308 (2010)
Papillary thyroid cancer is unusual among epithelial malignancies in that it is associated with a number of chromosomal rearrangements. The most common of these is the Ret oncogene, normally silent in the follicular cell, but which has been shown to be rearranged to the promoter region of a variety of different genes, all of which are constituently expressed in the thyroid follicular cell. It has been suggested that chromosomes in the thyroid cell are arranged within the nucleus in such a way as to predispose the cell to inappropriate fusion in the advent of DNA double-strand breakage. The presence of tumour specific fusion genes, and their transcribed proteins, presents a possible therapeutic target for thyroid cancer, but the relative contribution of the gene rearrangement in the growth and development of the tumour will need careful evaluation before clinical studies could take place.
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Publication type
Article: Journal article
Document type
Scientific Article
Keywords
Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Gene rearrangement; Chromosome aberrations; Genetic heterogeneity
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0009-8981
e-ISSN
1873-3492
Journal
Clinica Chimica Acta
Quellenangaben
Volume: 411,
Issue: 5-6,
Pages: 301-308
Publisher
Elsevier
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Reviewing status
Peer reviewed
Institute(s)
Research Unit Radiation Cytogenetics (ZYTO)