p.Val804Met, the Most Frequent Pathogenic Mutation in RET, Confers a Very Low Lifetime Risk of Medullary Thyroid Cancer
Author(s) -
Chey Loveday,
Katherine Josephs,
Daniel Chubb,
Adam C. Gunning,
Louise Izatt,
Marc Tischkowitz,
Sian Ellard,
Clare Turnbull
Publication year - 2018
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.2017-02529
Subject(s) - penetrance , medullary thyroid cancer , proto oncogene proteins c ret , exome , thyroid cancer , population , exome sequencing , medicine , oncology , genetics , mutation , allele frequency , cancer , allele , cancer research , biology , gene , phenotype , receptor , environmental health , neurotrophic factors , glial cell line derived neurotrophic factor
To date, penetrance figures for medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) for variants in rearranged during transfection (RET) have been estimated from families ascertained because of the presence of MTC.
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