BRAF and thyroid gland papillary carcinoma: 7q34 duplication in JPA was recently shown to produce novel oncogenic BRAF fusion genes with transforming capacity (Jones et al, 2008), similar to findings in radiation-associated papillary thyroid cancer (Ciampi et al, 2005) where an intrachromosomal inversion, and not duplication, let to this oncogenic event.