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Novel variant of unknown significance in MUTYH in a patient with MUTYH-associated polyposis: a case to reclassify.
Clinical journal of gastroenterology - 1 Dec 2018
Kidambi Trilokesh D, Goldberg Dena, Nussbaum Robert, Blanco Amie, Umetsu Sarah E, Terdiman Jonathan P, Lee Jeffrey K
Abstract excerpt
MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP) is a hereditary cancer syndrome that is caused by biallelic pathogenic variants in the MUTYH gene and should be evaluated for in patients with an attenuated colonic polyposis phenotype. Monoallelic pathogenic variants in MUTYH are associated with a moderate increased risk of colorectal cancer but not with the polyposis phenotype. We present a case of a patient presenting with...
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