De novo constitutional MLH1 epimutations confer early-onset colorectal cancer in two new sporadic Lynch syndrome cases, with derivation of the epimutation on the paternal allele in one.

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Published in Int J Cancer on February 15, 2011

Authors

Ajay Goel1, Thuy-Phuong Nguyen, Hon-Chiu E Leung, Takeshi Nagasaka, Jennifer Rhees, Erin Hotchkiss, Mildred Arnold, Pia Banerji, Minoru Koi, Chau-To Kwok, Deborah Packham, Lara Lipton, C Richard Boland, Robyn L Ward, Megan P Hitchins

Author Affiliations

1: Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Laboratory, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.

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