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Germline hMSH2 and differential somatic mutations in patients with Turcot's syndrome.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Jun 1999
Chan T L, Yuen S T, Chung L P, Ho J W, Kwan K, Fan Y W, Chan A S, Leung S Y
Abstract excerpt
Turcot's syndrome is characterized clinically by the occurrence of primary brain tumor and colorectal tumor and has in previous reports been shown to be associated with germline mutations in the genes APC, hMLH1, and hPMS2. Here we describe three patients with Turcot's syndrome, each having colorectal adenocarcinoma and malignant glioma. All the colorectal and brain tumors from these patients showed replication...
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