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A genome wide linkage analysis in Swedish families with hereditary non-familial adenomatous polyposis/non-hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer.
Gut - 1 Mar 2006
Djureinovic T, Skoglund J, Vandrovcova J, Zhou X-L, Kalushkova A, Iselius L, Lindblom A
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Known colorectal cancer syndromes, such as familial adenomatous polyposis and hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, have been identified in only a small proportion of cases with a family history of disease. In an attempt to identify loci harbouring novel predisposing genes, we have performed a genome wide linkage analysis in 18 colorectal cancer families recruited from the Department of...
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