Exome analysis of carotid body tumor

• Main Authors: Anastasiya V. Snezhkina (Author), Elena N. Lukyanova (Author), Dmitry V. Kalinin (Author), Anatoly V. Pokrovsky (Author), Alexey A. Dmitriev (Author), Nadezhda V. Koroban (Author), Elena A. Pudova (Author), Maria S. Fedorova (Author), Nadezhda N. Volchenko (Author), Oleg A. Stepanov (Author), Ekaterina A. Zhevelyuk (Author), Sergey L. Kharitonov (Author), Anastasiya V. Lipatova (Author), Ivan S. Abramov (Author), Alexander V. Golovyuk (Author), Yegor E. Yegorov (Author), Khava S. Vishnyakova (Author), Alexey A. Moskalev (Author), George S. Krasnov (Author), Nataliya V. Melnikova (Author), Dmitry S. Shcherbo (Author), Marina V. Kiseleva (Author), Andrey D. Kaprin (Author), Boris Y. Alekseev (Author), Andrew R. Zaretsky (Author), Anna V. Kudryavtseva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Carotid body tumor (CBT) is a form of head and neck paragangliomas (HNPGLs) arising at the bifurcation of carotid arteries. Paragangliomas are commonly associated with germline and somatic mutations involving at least one of more than thirty causative genes. However, the specific...