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Report of a family segregating mutations in both the APC and MSH2 genes: juvenile onset of colorectal cancer in a double heterozygote.
International journal of colorectal disease - 1 Nov 2008
Uhrhammer N, Bignon Y-J
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes are associated with high risk of digestive malignancies [hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC); Lynch syndrome]; mutations of APC and MYH are associated with classic and attenuated familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP). Although the early onset of tumors in both syndromes is characteristic of their genetic origin, pediatric malignancies...
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