Article
[Familial adenomatous polyposis].
Bulletin du cancer - 1 Jan 1994
Olschwang S
Abstract excerpt
Familial adenomatous polyposis is a rare genetic disease with a dominant mode of inheritance, involved in 1% of colorectal cancer. The APC gene, responsible for the disease, has been localized on the long arm of chromosome 5 and has recently been cloned and sequenced. Mutations predicted to alter the coding property of the APC gene have been reported in large series of adenomatous polyposis patients. Some of them...
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