Carcinogenesis Advance Access originally published online on March 28, 2003
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Carcinogenesis, Vol. 24, No. 6, 1155,
June 2003
© 2003 Oxford University Press
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Re: Lohrer,H.D., Hieber,L. and Zitzelsberger,H. (2002) Differential mutation frequency in mitochondrial DNA from thyroid tumours. Carcinogenesis, 23, 15771582
1 IPATIMUPInstitute of Molecular Pathology and Immunology of the University of Porto, Portugal
2 Medical Faculty of the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
3 Strangeways Research Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
4 Institute of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Kiev, Ukraine
5 South West Wales Cancer Institute, Swansea Clinical School, Singleton Hospital, Swansea, UK
6 Hospital S.João, Porto, Portugal
7 To whom correspondence should be addressed Email: ssimoes@ipatimup.pt
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Dear Sir,
We read with interest the article on Differential mutation frequency in mitochondrial DNA from thyroid tumours recently published in Carcinogenesis by Lohrer et al. (1).
Lohrer et al. (1) compared the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) alterations in 126 post-Chernobyl thyroid tumours (samples from