[Lynch syndrome].

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Patients with Lynch syndrome, one of the most common hereditary tumor predisposition syndromes, harbor an increased risk for a broad spectrum of especially gastrointestinal and gynecological tumors. Causative for the syndrome are variants in DNA mismatch repair genes, which are passed on to the offspring at a 50% chance (autosomal dominant inheritance). The tumor tissue of these patients usually shows...

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