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Barrett's esophagus in the patients with familial adenomatous polyposis.
Familial cancer - 1 Jun 2014
Gatalica Zoran, Chen Mingkui, Snyder Carrie, Mittal Sumeet, Lynch Henry T
Abstract excerpt
Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) is caused by germ line mutations in the APC gene. Barrett's esophagus (BE) and Barrett's adenocarcinoma are intestinal type lesions of the esophagus characterized by an early loss of heterozygosity at the APC locus. We hypothesized that patients with FAP are at risk for the early development of BE due to the inherited mutations in the APC gene (haploinsufficiency). Upper...
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