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Detection of germline variants with pathogenic potential in 48 patients with familial colorectal cancer by using whole exome sequencing.
BMC medical genomics - 9 Jun 2023
Singh Ashish Kumar, Talseth-Palmer Bente, Xavier Alexandre, Scott Rodney J, Drabløs Finn, Sjursen Wenche
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BACKGROUND: Hereditary genetic mutations causing predisposition to colorectal cancer are accountable for approximately 30% of all colorectal cancer cases. However, only a small fraction of these are high penetrant mutations occurring in DNA mismatch repair genes, causing one of several types of familial colorectal cancer (CRC) syndromes. Most of the mutations are low-penetrant variants, contributing to an...
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