Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

The genetic landscape of benign thyroid nodules revealed by whole exome and transcriptome sequencing

  • Lei Ye,
  • Xiaoyi Zhou,
  • Fengjiao Huang,
  • Weixi Wang,
  • Yicheng Qi,
  • Heng Xu,
  • Yang Shu,
  • Liyun Shen,
  • Xiaochun Fei,
  • Jing Xie,
  • Min Cao,
  • Yulin Zhou,
  • Wei Zhu,
  • Shu Wang,
  • Guang Ning,
  • Weiqing Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15533
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Papillary thyroid carcinomas are often found with coincidental benign thyroid nodules. Here, the authors provide genomic evidence that papillary thyroid carcinomas and coincidental benign thyroid nodules originate and evolve independently.