Follicular thyroid carcinoma, a less commonhistological subtype of thyroid cancer, is characterized by a chromosomaltranslocation t(2;3) that results in a fusion between paired box gene 8 onchromosome 2 and PPARγ onchromosome 3 (PAX8-PPARγ). The gene discussed is PAX8; the disease is thyroid gland follicular carcinoma.