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Mutational analysis of patients with adenomatous polyposis: identical inactivating mutations in unrelated individuals.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 1993
Groden J, Gelbert L, Thliveris A, Nelson L, Robertson M, Joslyn G, Samowitz W, Spirio L, Carlson M, Burt R
Abstract excerpt
Samples of constitutional DNA from 60 unrelated patients with adenomatous polyposis coli (APC) were examined for mutations in the APC gene. Five inactivating mutations were observed among 12 individuals with APC; all were different from the six inactivating mutations previously reported in this panel of patients. The newly discovered mutations included single-nucleotide substitutions leading to stop codons and...
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