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The diverse molecular profiles of lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancers are (highly) dependent on underlying germline mismatch repair mutations
24 May 2021
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Lynch syndrome (LS) is a hereditary cancer syndrome that accounts for 3% of all new colorectal cancer (CRC) cases. Patients carry a germline pathogenic variant in one of the mismatch repair (MMR) genes (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 or PMS2), which encode proteins involved in a post-replicative proofreading and editing mechanism. The clinical presentation of LS is highly heterogeneous, showing high variability in age at onset...
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