BRAF mutations in thyroid tumors are restricted to papillary carcinomas and anaplastic or poorly differentiated carcinomas arising from papillary carcinomas.

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Published in J Clin Endocrinol Metab on November 01, 2003

Authors

Marina N Nikiforova1, Edna T Kimura, Manoj Gandhi, Paul W Biddinger, Jeffrey A Knauf, Fulvio Basolo, Zhaowen Zhu, Riccardo Giannini, Giuliana Salvatore, Alfredo Fusco, Massimo Santoro, James A Fagin, Yuri E Nikiforov

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, USA.

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