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Evaluation of the replication error phenotype in relation to molecular and clinicopathological features in hereditary and early onset colorectal cancer.
European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) - 1 Feb 1999
Capozzi E, Della Puppa L, Fornasarig M, Pedroni M, Boiocchi M, Viel A
Abstract excerpt
Mutations affecting human mismatch repair (MMR) genes (MLH1, MSH2, PMS1, PMS2, and MSH6) cause tumour predisposition in hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) syndrome, and an association has been demonstrated with the replication error (RER) phenotype in most colorectal and some extracolonic neoplasms. A pathogenetic model for RER+ tumours through inactivation of suppressor genes has been...
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