[A pentagastrin stimulation test using a calcitonin (CT) immunoradiometric assay was performed in 38 healthy subjects and in the following 50 patients: 25 subjects from families with at least 2 known cases of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), 11 subjects from families with apparently sporadic MTC, 2 pheochromocytoma carriers, 1 primary hyperparathyroidism, 8 patients with thyroid nodules, and 3 others with various diseases.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE