Mutational load in carotid body tumor

• Main Authors: Anna V. Kudryavtseva (Author), Elena N. Lukyanova (Author), Dmitry V. Kalinin (Author), Andrew R. Zaretsky (Author), Anatoly V. Pokrovsky (Author), Alexander L. Golovyuk (Author), Maria S. Fedorova (Author), Elena A. Pudova (Author), Sergey L. Kharitonov (Author), Vladislav S. Pavlov (Author), Anastasiya A. Kobelyatskaya (Author), Nataliya V. Melnikova (Author), Alexey A. Dmitriev (Author), Andrey P. Polyakov (Author), Boris Y. Alekseev (Author), Marina V. Kiseleva (Author), Andrey D. Kaprin (Author), George S. Krasnov (Author), Anastasiya V. Snezhkina (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
• Online Access: Connect to this object online.

Abstract Background Carotid body tumor (CBT) is a rare neoplasm arising from paraganglion located near the bifurcation of the carotid artery. There is great intra-tumor heterogeneity, and CBT development could be associated with both germline and somatic allelic variants. Studies on the molecular ge...