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ArticleHuman genetics1996

No mutations found by RET mutation scanning in sporadic and hereditary neuroblastoma.

R M Hofstra, N C Cheng, C Hansen, R P Stulp, T Stelwagen, N Clausen, N Tommerup, H Caron, A Westerveld, R Versteeg and 1 more

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Article in Human genetics, 1996. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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11 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

R M HofstraUniversity of Groningen, Department of Medical Genetics, The Netherlands.
N C Cheng
C Hansen
R P Stulp
T Stelwagen
N Clausen
N Tommerup
H Caron
A Westerveld
R Versteeg
C H Buys
University of Groningen · NLAcademic Medical Center · NLKennedy Center · DKUniversity of Amsterdam · NLAarhus University Hospital · DK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neuroblastoma occasionally occurs in diseases associated with abnormal neurocrest differentiation, e.g. Hirschsprung disease. Expression studies in developing mice suggest that the proto-oncogene RET plays a role in neurocrest differentiation. In humans expression of RET is limited to certain tumor types, including neuroblastoma, that derive from migrating neural crest cells. Mutations of RET are found associated with Hirschsprung disease. These data prompted us to investigate expression of RET and to search for gene mutations in neuroblastoma. Out of 16 neuroblastoma cell lines analyzed, 9 show clear expression of RET in a Northern blot analysis. In a single strandt conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis of all exons, no mutations were detected other than neutral polymorphisms. In a patient with neuroblastoma, from a family in which different neurocrestopathies, including neuroblastoma and Hirschsprung disease, had occurred, we also failed to detect RET mutations. Possibly, expression of RET in neuroblastoma merely reflects the differentiation status of the tumor cells. The absence of mutations suggests that RET does not play a crucial role in the tumorigenesis of neuroblastoma.

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Drosophila ProteinsMutationHumansNeoplasmsNeuroblastomaPolymorphism, Single-Stranded ConformationalProto-Oncogene MasProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-retReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesDrosophila ProteinsMAS1 protein, humanProto-Oncogene MasProto-Oncogene ProteinsProto-Oncogene Proteins c-retReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesRet protein, Drosophila

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