Article
Somatic mutations of the APC, KRAS, and TP53 genes in nonpolypoid colorectal adenomas.
Genes, chromosomes & cancer - 1 Feb 2000
van Wyk R, Slezak P, Hayes V M, Buys C H, Kotze M J, de Jong G, Rubio C, Dolk A, Jaramillo E, Koizumi K, Grobbelaar J J
Abstract excerpt
Colorectal adenomas are macroscopically visible morphological changes of the mucosa that can develop focal carcinoma in the absence of surgical intervention. The successive molecular changes proposed to occur at different stages in the adenoma-carcinoma sequence were primarily based on DNA studies of exophytic, polypoid-type adenomas. Not all colorectal lesions, however, display an exophytic phenotype and a...
Topics
- Adenoma
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Amino Acid Substitution
- Base Sequence
- Colorectal Neoplasms
- DNA
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Frameshift Mutation
- Genes
- Genes, APC
- Genes, p53
- Genes, ras
- Humans
