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Molecular analysis of the evolutionary history of endometrial and ovarian carcinoma in Lynch syndrome.
International journal of cancer - 1 Dec 2025
Kauppinen Anni K, Olkinuora Alisa P, Mecklin Jukka-Pekka, Peltomäki Päivi T
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Lynch syndrome (LS) is a prevalent cause of hereditary gynecological cancers. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) defects are important players in LS tumorigenesis, but the developmental steps leading to malignancy are incompletely understood. We undertook a deep sequencing approach with a panel of ~1,000 cancer-associated genes to detect somatic changes in retrospective specimens from 33 LS carriers who had developed...
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