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No difference in stem cell somatic mutation between the background mucosa of right- and left-sided sporadic colorectal carcinomas.
The Journal of pathology - 1 Sept 1998
Campbell F, Appleton M A, Shields C J, Williams G T
Abstract excerpt
Epidemiological, morphological, and molecular differences exist between carcinomas of the right and left sides of the large bowel. To investigate whether this is reflected in differences in somatic mutation frequency in the background mucosa, mutation of the neutral O-acetyltransferase gene (oat) was quantified in histologically normal resection margins from 20 informative (heterozygous) patients with caecal or...
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