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Recent advances in molecular genetics of colorectal cancer.
World journal of surgery - 1 Sept 1997
Baba S
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Advances in molecular biology have identified two important genes responsible for the hereditary colorectal cancers familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) and hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer. They are the APC gene and mismatch repair genes. The role of these genes in colorectal carcinogenesis has been studied intensively. The adenoma-carcinoma sequence was initially proposed by Vogelstein, and the...
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