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Similar colorectal cancer risk in patients with monoallelic and biallelic mutations in the MYH gene identified in a population with adenomatous polyposis.
Genetic testing - 1 Jan 2007
Olschwang Sylviane, Blanché Hélène, de Moncuit Céline, Thomas Gilles
Abstract excerpt
A large proportion of non-FAP non-HNPCC patients with multiple colorectal adenomas have been reported to carry germline mutations on the MYH gene. Although the number of adenomas appears to be dependent on the number of mutated MYH alleles present in a patient, little is known on the relation of this number with cancer risk. Four hundred fifty-three APC-negative patients with more than five colorectal adenomas...
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