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Pathogenicity of the hereditary colorectal cancer mutation hMLH1 del616 linked to shortage of the functional protein.
Gastroenterology - 1 Aug 2003
Raevaara Tiina E, Vaccaro Carlos, Abdel-Rahman Wael M, Mocetti Esteban, Bala Shashi, Lönnqvist Karin E, Kariola Reetta, Lynch Henry T, Peltomäki Päivi, Nyström-Lahti Minna
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer is associated with mismatch repair deficiency. Most predisposing mutations prevent the production of functional mismatch repair protein. Thus, when the wild-type copy is also inactivated, the cell becomes mismatch repair deficient, and this leads to a high degree of microsatellite instability in tumors. However, tumors linked to nontruncating mutations...
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