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Familial colorectal cancer: eleven years of data from a registry program in Switzerland.
Familial cancer - 1 Sept 2011
Kovac Michal, Laczko Endre, Haider Ritva, Jiricny Josef, Mueller Hansjakob, Heinimann Karl, Marra Giancarlo
Abstract excerpt
Deleterious germ-line variants involving the DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes have been identified as the cause of the hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer syndrome known as the Lynch syndrome, but in numerous familial clusters of colon cancer, the cause remains obscure. We analyzed data for 235 German-speaking Swiss families with nonpolyposis forms of colorectal cancer (one of the largest and most ethnically...
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