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Distinct clinical features associated with microsatellite instability in colorectal cancers of young patients.
International journal of cancer - 20 Jul 2000
Ho J W, Yuen S T, Chung L P, Kwan K Y, Chan T L, Leung S Y, Chan A S, Tse C w, Lam P W, Luk I S
Abstract excerpt
The Hong Kong Chinese population has an unusually high incidence of colorectal cancer in the young, suggestive of hereditary susceptibility. To search for a genetic basis for this predisposition, we studied the incidence of microsatellite instability (MSI) in paraffin-embedded colectomy specimens of 124 young (<50 years old) Chinese colorectal cancer patients referred to the Hong Kong Hereditary Gastrointestinal...
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