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Constitutive deficiency in DNA mismatch repair: is it time for Lynch III?
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 2007
Felton K E A, Gilchrist D M, Andrew S E
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch syndrome types I and II, and the related subtypes Turcot and Muir-Torre syndrome, have all been associated with inheritance of germ line mutations in the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Fifty individuals have recently been identified with an early onset of a different spectrum of cancers associated with inheritance of two MMR...
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