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"Second hit" in sebaceous tumors from Muir-Torre patients with germline mutations in MSH2: allele loss is not the preferred mode of inactivation.
The Journal of investigative dermatology - 1 Mar 2001
Kruse R, Rütten A, Hosseiny-Malayeri H R, Bisceglia M, Friedl W, Propping P, Ruzicka T, Mangold E
Abstract excerpt
Muir-Torre syndrome is an autosomal-dominant inherited disorder predisposing to both sebaceous skin tumors and internal neoplasms. In a significant proportion of Muir-Torre syndrome patients skin tumors exhibit microsatellite instability as a hallmark of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. Most individuals predisposed to hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer harbor a germline mutation in the DNA...
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