Genotype and phenotype in hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer: a study of families with different vs. shared predisposing mutations
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Familial Cancer
- Vol. 1 (1) , 9-15
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011564720772
Abstract
Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is a multi-organ cancer syndrome associated with heritable mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes, particularly MLH1 (MutL Homologue 1) and MSH2...Keywords
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