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Probable involvement of a germ-line mutation of an unknown mismatch repair gene in a Japanese Muir-Torre syndrome phenotype.
Journal of dermatological science - 1 Jun 2000
Kubota T, Dakeishi M, Nozaki J, Manabe M, Koizumi A
Abstract excerpt
A combination of haplotype analysis and direct sequencing were conducted on Japanese Muir-Torre syndrome kindred. In the kindred, two females revealed a hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) phenotype and one male had a sebaceous tumor in addition to a HNPCC phenotype. Haplotype analysis and direct sequencing failed to show involvement of the known mismatch repair genes, with the exception of MSH5, in...
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