Suspected Lynch syndrome associated MSH6 variants: A functional assay to determine their pathogenicity
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Suspected Lynch syndrome associated MSH6 variants: A functional assay to determine their pathogenicity
Lynch syndrome (LS) is a hereditary cancer predisposition caused by inactivating mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes. Mutations in the MSH6 DNA MMR gene account for approximately 18% of LS cases. Many LS-associated sequence variants are nonsense and frameshift mutations that clearly abrogate MMR activity. However, missense mutations whose functional implications are unclear are also fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS Genetics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1553-7404
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006765