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Prevalence of mismatch repair-deficient crypt foci in Lynch syndrome: a pathological study.
The Lancet. Oncology - 1 Jun 2012
Kloor Matthias, Huth Cathrin, Voigt Anita Y, Benner Axel, Schirmacher Peter, von Knebel Doeberitz Magnus, Bläker Hendrik
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BACKGROUND: Lynch syndrome is an inherited tumour predisposition syndrome caused by germline mutations of DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Mutation carriers have a high risk of developing colorectal cancer, but do not present with polyposis, a typical feature of other colorectal cancer syndromes such as familial adenomatous polyposis, in which polyposis reflects the high frequency of biallelic APC gene...
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