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Turcot's syndrome: evidence for linkage to the adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) locus.
Neurology - 1 Jun 1994
Lasser D M, DeVivo D C, Garvin J, Wilhelmsen K C
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the possibility that neuroepithelial tumors in Turcot's syndrome are caused by pleiotropic mutations in the gene for adenomatous polyposis coli (APC), a tumor-suppressor gene implicated in colonic cancer. METHODS: We studied the inheritance patterns of genetic markers for the chromosome 5q21 region in 12 members of a Turcot's syndrome kindred with five affected members. We performed...
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