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Pancreatic cancer genetics.
Pancreatology : official journal of the International Association of Pancreatology (IAP) ... [et al.] - 1 Jan 2001
Efthimiou E, Crnogorac-Jurcevic T, Lemoine N R
Abstract excerpt
Cancer is a multi-stage process resulting from accumulation of genetic changes in the somatic DNA of normal cells. Although in the majority of cases the changes occur only in the cancer cells there is a small proportion of cancers where a germline mutation confers an increased risk for cancer. Cancer susceptibility genes have effects that range from high to low penetrance with a corresponding high to lower...
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