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Replication errors in benign and malignant tumors from hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer patients.
Cancer research - 1 Apr 1994
Aaltonen L A, Peltomäki P, Mecklin J P, Järvinen H, Jass J R, Green J S, Lynch H T, Watson P, Tallqvist G, Juhola M
Abstract excerpt
A replication error (RER) phenotype has been documented both in sporadic colorectal tumors and in tumors from patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). In the current study 8 of 49 (16%) sporadic colorectal cancers (CRCs) and 25 of 29 (86%) CRCs from HNPCC patients were found to be RER+. All 9 (100%) CRCs from HNPCC patients with germline mutations of the mismatch repair gene MSH2 were...
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