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Acceleration of lymphomagenesis in mismatch-repair deficient mice by exposure to genotoxic agents.
Toxicology letters - 15 Mar 2000
Jansen L, Claij N, Dekker M, van Klink Y, van der Valk M, van 't Wout K, te Riele H
Abstract excerpt
Hemizygosity for genes that are essential for DNA mismatch repair (MMR) was found to underlie cancer predisposition in hereditary nonpolypsis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Loss of the wild-type allele generates a MMR-deficient cell compartment with a high propensity to oncogenic transformation. MMR deficiency not only accelerates spontaneous mutagenesis resulting from DNA replication errors, but also affects the...
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