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Cancer predisposition syndromes: lessons for truly precision medicine.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Jan 2017
Glaire Mark A, Brown Matthew, Church David N, Tomlinson Ian
Abstract excerpt
Cancer predisposition syndromes are typically uncommon, monogenic, high-penetrance disorders. Despite their rarity, they have proven to be highly clinically relevant in directing cancer prevention strategies. As such, they share notable similarities with an expanding class of low-frequency somatic mutations that are associated with a striking prognostic or predictive effect in the tumours in which they occur. In...
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