ARMS‐qPCR‐Based Detection of BRAF and TERT Promoter Mutations: A Cost‐Effective Strategy for Molecular Diagnosis of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Yuanyuan Jia, Yajun Zhang, Dandan Sun, Jiabao Yang, Mengshi Zhou, Min Gao, Rui Li · 2026

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Yuanyuan Jia and co-authors build a cheap gene test for thyroid cancer in a 2026 paper. Papillary thyroid cancer often carries a change in the BRAF gene or in a gene switch called TERT, and finding them aids diagnosis. Standard sequencing is slow and costly for many clinics.

Their method pairs a mutation-specific amplification trick with glowing probes to catch three named changes in one workflow. In lab checks it beat commercial kits on accuracy and sensitivity. On 40 stored tissue samples, it found the BRAF change in more than four of five cancers, matching sequencing where it counted. Fast, cheap mutation checks could widen molecular diagnosis.

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CREATORYuanyuan Jia, Yajun Zhang, Dandan Sun, Jiabao Yang, Mengshi Zhou, Min Gao, Rui Li
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13179447

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