Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer: Causative role of a germline missense mutation in the hMLH1 gene confirmed by the independent occurrence of the same somatic mutation in tumour tissue

Human Genetics

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 362-364

  Wang, Yaping ^a,b   Friedl, Waltraut ^a   Lamberti, Christof ^a   Ruelfs, Corina ^a   Kruse, Roland ^a   Propping, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JIANGSU CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTIDINE; PROLINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CASE REPORT; CODON; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

CARRIER PROTEINS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HISTIDINE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; PROLINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS;

EID: 0030922786     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050517     Document Type: Article

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