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Molecular and clinical characteristics in 32 families affected with familial adenomatous polyposis.
Human mutation - 1 Dec 2001
Hutter P, Rey-Berthod C, Chappuis P O, Couturier A, Membrez V, Murphy A, Joris F, Schorderet D F, Delozier-Blanchet C, Soravia C
Abstract excerpt
Germ-line mutations in the 5' half of the Adenomatous Polyposis Coli (APC) gene are found in about 80% of the patients affected with familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). The vast majority of these are nonsense or frameshift mutations which result in the loss of the carboxyl terminus of the APC protein. Using an in vivo assay in yeast, we have identified pathogenic germ-line mutations in 26 of 32 (81%) unrelated...
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