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Contribution of the CHEK2 1100delC variant to risk of multiple colorectal adenoma and carcinoma.
Cancer letters - 28 Oct 2003
Lipton Lara, Fleischmann Christina, Sieber Oliver M, Thomas Huw J W, Hodgson Shirley V, Tomlinson Ian P M, Houlston Richard S
Abstract excerpt
Aneuploidy is a characteristic of a subset of colorectal tumours. CHEK2 (also known as CHK2) is one of the cell cycle checkpoint genes coding for a family of proteins that sense damage in eukaryotic cells. Germline variation in CHEK2 has recently been shown to confer cancer susceptibility. Heterozygous mutations have been identified in patients with TP53-negative Li-Fraumeni syndrome. Furthermore, the CHEK2...
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