RET Y791F Variant Does Not Increase the Risk for Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Affiliations

¹ 1 Endocrine Genetics Unit (Laboratório de Investigação Médica/LIM-25) of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo School of Medicine , São Paulo, Brazil .
² 2 Division of Endocrinology, Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo , Brazil .
³ 3 Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Interdisciplinary Centre of Metabolism: Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin , Berlin, Germany .
⁴ 4 Division of Genetics, Genetic Bases of Thyroid Tumors Laboratory, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of São Paulo , Brazil .
⁵ 5 Genomic Medicine Institute , Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁶ 6 Section for Preventive Medicine, Department of Nephrology and General Medicine, University Medical Centre , Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany .

Comment

Rodrigo A Toledo et al. Thyroid. 2015 Aug.

. 2015 Aug;25(8):973-4.

doi: 10.1089/thy.2015.0168. Epub 2015 Jun 12.

¹ 1 Endocrine Genetics Unit (Laboratório de Investigação Médica/LIM-25) of Hospital das Clínicas, University of São Paulo School of Medicine , São Paulo, Brazil .
² 2 Division of Endocrinology, Laboratory of Molecular and Translational Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Federal University of São Paulo , Brazil .
³ 3 Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Interdisciplinary Centre of Metabolism: Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin , Berlin, Germany .
⁴ 4 Division of Genetics, Genetic Bases of Thyroid Tumors Laboratory, Department of Morphology and Genetics, Federal University of São Paulo , Brazil .
⁵ 5 Genomic Medicine Institute , Lerner Research Institute and Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
⁶ 6 Section for Preventive Medicine, Department of Nephrology and General Medicine, University Medical Centre , Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany .

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Revised American Thyroid Association guidelines for the management of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
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