DNA mismatch repair genes and their association with colorectal cancer (Review).

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Mismatch repair genes are involved in increasing the fidelity of replication by specific repair of DNA polymerase incorporation errors. In Escherichia coli, the best studied mismatch repair (MMR) pathway is the methyl-directed long patch repair system which is mediated by three gene products; MutS, MutL and MutH. These are conserved in higher eukaryotes. Mutations in human homologues of these proteins have been...

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