## Background: Carcinomas of the small intestine are rare, but the risk is greatly increased in patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (hnpcc) due to an inherited mismatch repair (mmr) gene mutation, most commonly affecting the genes mlh1 or msh2. defective mmr is characterized by
Microsatellite instability and expression of MLH1 and MSH2 in carcinomas of the small intestine
β Scribed by Karsten Schulmann; Stephan A. Hahn; Frank Brasch; Wolff Schmiegel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 80 KB
- Volume
- 98
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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