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Mutations of the APC gene in human sporadic colorectal cancers.
Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology - 1 Sept 2002
De Filippo C, Luceri C, Caderni G, Pacini M, Messerini L, Biggeri A, Mini E, Tonelli F, Cianchi F, Dolara P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Mutations of the APC gene are reported to occur frequently in sporadic colorectal adenomas and adenocarcinomas. We studied APC gene mutations in cases of human sporadic colorectal cancer in order to evaluate their correlation with pathologic characteristics and clinical prognosis. METHODS: Most of the mutations of the APC gene (95%) are nonsense or frame shift mutations, encoding for truncated APC...
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