Genetic Predisposition to Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Involvement of FOXE1, TSHR, and a Novel lincRNA Gene, PTCSC2
Author(s) -
Huiling He,
Wei Li,
Sandya Liyanarachchi,
Jarosław Jendrzejewski,
Mukund Srinivas,
Ramana V. Davuluri,
Rebecca Nagy,
Albert de la Chapelle
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.206
H-Index - 353
eISSN - 1945-7197
pISSN - 0021-972X
DOI - 10.1210/jc.2014-2147
Subject(s) - thyroid carcinoma , genetic predisposition , medicine , gene , thyroid , biology , cancer research , oncology , genetics
By genome-wide association studies, the risk allele [A] of SNP rs965513 predisposes strongly to papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). It is located in a gene-poor region of 9q22, some 60 kb from the FOXE1 gene. The underlying mechanisms remain to be discovered.
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