Epimutations and cancer predisposition: importance and mechanisms.

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Germline sequence mutations in tumour suppressor genes can cause cancer predisposition syndromes. More recently, epimutations have also been proposed to cause at least one such syndrome, hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). 'Epigenetic predisposition', is defined as an inherited propensity to an altered epigenetic state in normal tissues that confers a predisposition to disease. Genetic sequence...

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