MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP), the syndrome implicating base excision repair in inherited predisposition to colorectal tumors

Frontiers in Oncology

Volumn 2 AUG, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Venesio, Tiziana ^a   Balsamo, Antonella ^a   D'Agostino, Vito G ^b   Ranzani, Guglielmina N ^b  

^a CANDIOLO CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Base excision repair (BER); Colorectal cancer (CRC); Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP); Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC); Mismatch repair (MMR); MUTYH associated polyposis (MAP)

Indexed keywords

DNA GLYCOSYLASE MUTY; DNA GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASE; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE;

CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; DNA REPLICATION; EXCISION REPAIR; FAMILIAL COLON POLYPOSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY; MISSENSE MUTATION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MUTYH GENE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; POLYPOSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THYROID CARCINOMA; ULCERATIVE COLITIS;

EID: 84876293078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2234943X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00083     Document Type: Review

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