thyroid gland carcinoma
MONDO:0015075Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names thyroid gland carcinoma yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
A carcinoma arising from the thyroid gland. It is usually an adenocarcinoma and includes the following main subtypes: follicular, papillary, medullary, poorly differentiated, and anaplastic.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0015075), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Genes
1 gene
Germline variants in the gene encoding each protein, as classified by GenCC submitters, each in their own words. Limited, disputed and refuted submissions are listed too.
- POT1HGNC:17284
- Limited · Ambry Genetics · Autosomal dominant · 2025
Where it sits
- A kind of
- Narrower terms (11)
- differentiated thyroid carcinoma
- familial nonmedullary thyroid carcinoma
- intrathyroid thymic carcinoma
- multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2
- thyroid gland adenocarcinoma
- thyroid gland cribriform morular carcinoma
- thyroid gland mixed medullary and follicular cell-derived carcinoma
- thyroid gland mucinous carcinoma
- thyroid gland spindle cell tumor with thymus-like differentiation
- thyroid gland squamous cell carcinoma
- thyroid gland undifferentiated (anaplastic) carcinoma
Other names
5 names
Resolves to: thyroid gland carcinoma
- Also called
- carcinoma of the thyroidcarcinoma of the thyroid glandcarcinoma of thyroidcarcinoma of thyroid glandthyroid carcinoma