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Structure of the human MSH2 locus and analysis of two Muir-Torre kindreds for msh2 mutations.
Genomics - 1 Dec 1994
Kolodner R D, Hall N R, Lipford J, Kane M F, Rao M R, Morrison P, Wirth L, Finan P J, Burn J, Chapman P
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal carcinoma (HNPCC) is a major cancer susceptibility syndrome known to be caused by inheritance of mutations in genes such as hMSH2 and hMLH1, which encode components of a DNA mismatch repair system. The MSH2 genomic locus has been cloned and shown to cover approximately 73 kb of genomic DNA and to contain 16 exons. The sequence of all the intron-exon junctions has been determined...
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