Prevalence and diagnostic reliability of BRAF, RAS mutations, and RET/PTC rearrangements in a Latin American public health service population with thyroid nodular disease

• Freddy David Moposita Molina,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Graduate Program in Biosciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil

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• Grasiela Agnes,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Marília Remuzzi Zandoná,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Rogério Izquierdo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Radiology Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Fábio Alves Bilhar,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Endocrine Unit, Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Brazil

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• Laura Berton Eidt,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Endocrine Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Virgílio Gonzales Zanella,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Head and Neck Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Luiz Felipe Osowski,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Head and Neck Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil

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• Sofia de Oliveira Belardinelli,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Amanda Cometti de Andrade,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Molecular Biology Laboratory, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Erika Laurini de Souza Meyer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Endocrine Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Department of Internal Medicine, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Lenara Golbert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Endocrine Unit, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Brazil, Department of Internal Medicine, UFCSPA, Brazil

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• Vanessa Suñé Mattevi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: vmattevi@ufcspa.edu.br

  Affiliations Graduate Program in Biosciences, Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil, Molecular Biology Laboratory, UFCSPA, Brazil, Department of Basic Health Sciences, UFCSPA, Brazil

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2697-4909

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