A mutation in the RET proto-oncogene associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B and sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma (original) (raw)

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MULTIPLE endocrine neoplasia type 2 (MEN 2) comprises three clinically distinct, dominantly inherited cancer syndromes. MEN 2A patients develop medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) and phaeochromocytoma. MEN 2B patients show in addition ganglioneuromas of the gastrointestinal tract and skeletal abnormalities. In familial MTC, only the thyroid is affected. Germ-line mutations of the RET proto-oncogene have recently been reported in association with MEN 2A and familial MTC1,2. All mutations occurred within codons specifying cysteine residues in the transition point between the _RET_protein extracellular and transmem-brane domains. We now show that MEN 2B is also associated with mutation of the RET proto-oncogene. A mutation in codon 664, causing the substitution of a threonine for a methionine in the tyrosine kinase domain of the protein, was found in all nine unrelated MEN 2B patients studied. The same mutation was found in six out of 18 sporadic tumours.

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  1. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Groningen, Ant. Deusinglaan 4, 9713 AW, Groningen, The Netherlands
    Robert M. W. Hofstra, Rein P. Stulp, Tineke Stelwagen & Charles H. C. M. Buys
  2. Department of Internal Medicine and Pathology, Utrecht University Hospital, Clinical Genetics Centre, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Rudy M. Landsvater, Jo W. M. Hoppener, Hans Kristian Ploos van Amstel & Cornells J. M. Lips
  3. Laboratorio di Genetica Molecolare, Institute G. Gaslini, Genova, 16148, Italy
    Isabella Ceccherini, Yin Luo, Barbara Pasini & Giovanni Romeo

Authors

  1. Robert M. W. Hofstra
  2. Rudy M. Landsvater
  3. Isabella Ceccherini
  4. Rein P. Stulp
  5. Tineke Stelwagen
  6. Yin Luo
  7. Barbara Pasini
  8. Jo W. M. Hoppener
  9. Hans Kristian Ploos van Amstel
  10. Giovanni Romeo
  11. Cornells J. M. Lips
  12. Charles H. C. M. Buys

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Hofstra, R., Landsvater, R., Ceccherini, I. et al. A mutation in the RET proto-oncogene associated with multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2B and sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma.Nature 367, 375–376 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1038/367375a0

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