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Alterations of the base excision repair gene MUTYH in sporadic colorectal cancer.
Oncology reports - 1 Aug 2012
Kuno Takashi, Matsubara Nagahide, Tsuda Satoshi, Kobayashi Masayoshi, Hamanaka Mie, Yamagishi Daisuke, Tsukamoto Kiyoshi, Yamano Tomoki, Noda Masafumi, Ikeuchi Hiroki, Kim Sanghyuk, Tamura Kazuo, Tomita Naohiro
Abstract excerpt
The base excision repair gene MUTYH encodes glycosylase which removes adenine residues mispaired with 8-oxo-7,8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-OHG). Biallelic germline mutations of the MUTYH gene are known to cause multiple colorectal adenomas including polyposis and cancer, mostly due to G:C➝T:A t...
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