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Age of onset in familial adenomatous polyposis: heterogeneity within families and among APC mutations.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Oct 1994
Presciuttini S, Varesco L, Sala P, Gismondi V, Rossetti C, Bafico A, Ferrara G B, Bertario L
Abstract excerpt
Heterogeneity among and within FAP pedigrees for the age of symptom onset and the age at death from colorectal cancer was studied in a sample of 583 patients of the Italian Polyposis Registry. The among pedigree variation was largely explained by clustering of families in two groups, 'early FAP' (most colorectal cancer deaths below 45 years of age) and 'late FAP' families (most deaths above age 45). The...
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