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A novel STK11 germline mutation in two siblings with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome complicated by primary gastric cancer.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Shinmura K, Goto M, Tao H, Shimizu S, Otsuki Y, Kobayashi H, Ushida S, Suzuki K, Tsuneyoshi T, Sugimura H
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS) are known to be at risk of gastric cancer (GC), and the STK11 gene is a susceptibility gene for PJS. However, as no cases of PJS with GC in which a STK11 germline mutation has been identified have ever been reported and other susceptibility genes have al...
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