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New founding mutation in MSH2 associated with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome on the Island of Tenerife.
Cancer letters - 8 Dec 2006
Medina-Arana Vicente, Barrios Ysamar, Fernández-Peralta Antonia, Herrera Mercedes, Chinea Nancy, Lorenzo Nieves, Jiménez Alejandro, Martín-López Juana Victoria, González-Hermoso Fernando, Salido Eduardo, González-Aguilera Juan J
Abstract excerpt
Lynch syndrome or hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is a hereditary syndrome with genetic heterogeneity. The disease is caused by mutations or epigenetic silencing in DNA mismatch repair genes, MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, PMS2 and MLH3, although the vast majority of cases correspond to mutations of MLH1 and MSH2. We herein describe a nucleotide change, c.2063T>G in exon 13 of the MSH2 gene, present in...
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