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Emergent issues in the genetics of intestinal neoplasia.
Cancer surveys - 1 Jan 1995
Dove W F, Gould K A, Luongo C, Moser A R, Shoemaker A R
Abstract excerpt
Mutation of the APC gene may be a common denominator of all human colon cancer--polypoid and non-polypoid familial cancer as well as sporadic occurrences. Fearon and Vogelstein (1990) have described a series of molecular changes during the progression of human colon cancer, beginning with mutations in APC. Min is a strain of the laboratory mouse carrying a nonsense mutation in Apc, the mouse homologue of APC. The...
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