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Age of diagnosis of colorectal cancer in HNPCC patients is more complex than that predicted by R72P polymorphism in TP53.
International journal of cancer - 15 May 2006
Talseth Bente A, Meldrum Cliff, Suchy Janina, Kurzawski Grzegroz, Lubinski Jan, Scott Rodney J
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is an autosomal dominantly inherited cancer syndrome associated with germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Recently a polymorphism at codon 72 (R72P) in the tumour suppressor gene TP53 has been implicated in the age of disease onset in HNPCC. In this report we have studied a large cohort of HNPCC patients to assess the impact of this polymorphism...
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