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Whole-Exome Sequencing Analyses of Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Associated Colorectal Cancers.
Gastroenterology - 1 Apr 2016
Robles Ana I, Traverso Giovanni, Zhang Ming, Roberts Nicholas J, Khan Mohammed A, Joseph Christine, Lauwers Gregory Y, Selaru Florin M, Popoli Maria, Pittman Meredith E, Ke Xiquan, Hruban Ralph H, Meltzer Stephen J, Kinzler Kenneth W, Vogelstein Bert, Harris Curtis C, Papadopoulos Nickolas
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND & AIMS: A long duration of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) increases the risk for colorectal cancer. Mutation analysis of limited numbers of genes has indicated that colorectal tumors that develop in patients with IBD differ from those of patients without IBD. We performed whole-exome sequencing analyses to characterize the genetic landscape of these tumors. METHODS: We collected colorectal tumor and...
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