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In vitro transcription/translation assay for the screening of hMLH1 and hMSH2 mutations in familial colon cancer.
Gastroenterology - 1 Oct 1995
Luce M C, Marra G, Chauhan D P, Laghi L, Carethers J M, Cherian S P, Hawn M, Binnie C G, Kam-Morgan L N, Cayouette M C
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BACKGROUND & AIMS: Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) has been linked recently to a defect in repairing mismatched nucleotides in DNA. The aim of this study was to screen for germline mutations that result in prematurely truncated proteins in two of the mismatch repair genes identified at this time, hMLH1 and hMSH2, in a consecutive series of patients belonging to familial aggregations of...
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