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Unicryptal loss of heterozygosity in hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer.
Pathology - 1 Oct 1994
Jass J R, Edgar S
Abstract excerpt
DNA mismatch repair genes are responsible for the condition hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). Genomic destabilization caused by failure of DNA mismatch repair leads to the progressive accumulation of somatic mutations and so to accelerated oncogenesis. The aim of this study was to document the rate of background mutational activity in the normal colorectal mucosa of subjects with HNPCC. A...
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