Lynch syndrome: New tales from the crypt

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 562-564

  Boland, C Richard ^a  

^a BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APC PROTEIN; MISMATCH REPAIR PROTEIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN;

APC GENE; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYPOSIS; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLORECTAL CANCER; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTESTINE CRYPT; LETTER; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MMR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ABERRANT CRYPT FOCI; ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA MISMATCH REPAIR; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 84861571275     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(12)70134-1     Document Type: Letter

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