. . . . . . . "[In order to confirm the postulated link between irradiation and the role of the ret proto-oncogene in thyroid tumorigenesis, we analysed for the presence of ret activating rearrangements using RT-PCR, XL-PCR, Southern blot and direct sequencing techniques, 39 human thyroid tumors (19 papillary carcinomas and 20 follicular adenomas), from patients who had received external radiation for benign or malignant conditions.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:15:58+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .