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Clinical consequences of molecular diagnosis in families with mismatch repair gene germline mutations.
International journal of colorectal disease - 1 Nov 2000
Pistorius S R, Kruppa C, Haas S, Plaschke J, Kruger S, Bulitta C J, Nagel M, Saeger H D, Schackert H K
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), clinically defined by the Amsterdam criteria, is associated with mismatch repair gene germline mutations. This study was performed to evaluate the efficiency of combined clinical and molecular diagnostics in identifying carriers of a mutated gene in families meeting criteria of the Bethesda guidelines and to examine the influence of molecular diagnosis on...
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