Cancer risk associated with germline DNA mismatch repair gene mutations

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-110

  Dunlop, Malcolm G ^a,b   Farrington, Susan M ^a,b   Carothers, Andrew D ^b   Wyllie, Andrew K ^a   Sharp, Linda ^c   Burn, John ^d   Liu, Bo ^e   Kinzler, Kenneth W ^e   Vogelstein, Bert ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; DNA REPAIR; FAMILIAL CANCER; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC COUNSELING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UTERUS CANCER;

COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA REPAIR; GERM CELLS; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; MUTAGENESIS; PEDIGREE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0031012805     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/6.1.105     Document Type: Article

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