Dominantly inherited micro-satellite instable cancer – the four Lynch syndromes - an EHTG, PLSD position statement

Dominantly inherited micro-satellite instable cancer – the four Lynch syndromes - an EHTG, PLSD position statement

Abstract The recognition of dominantly inherited micro-satellite instable (MSI) cancers caused by pathogenic variants in one of the four mismatch repair (MMR) genes MSH2, MLH1, MSH6 and PMS2 has modified our understanding of carcinogenesis. Inherited loss of function variants in each of these MMR ge...

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Main Authors: Pal Møller, Toni T. Seppälä, Aysel Ahadova, Emma J. Crosbie, Elke Holinski-Feder, Rodney Scott, Saskia Haupt, Gabriela Möslein, Ingrid Winship, Sanne W. Bajwa-ten Broeke, Kelly E. Kohut, Neil Ryan, Peter Bauerfeind, Laura E. Thomas, D. Gareth Evans, Stefan Aretz, Rolf H. Sijmons, Elizabeth Half, Karl Heinimann, Karoline Horisberger, Kevin Monahan, Christoph Engel, Giulia Martina Cavestro, Robert Fruscio, Naim Abu-Freha, Levi Zohar, Luigi Laghi, Lucio Bertario, Bernardo Bonanni, Maria Grazia Tibiletti, Leonardo S. Lino-Silva, Carlos Vaccaro, Adriana Della Valle, Benedito Mauro Rossi, Leandro Apolinário da Silva, Ivana Lucia de Oliveira Nascimento, Norma Teresa Rossi, Tadeusz Dębniak, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Inge Bernstein, Annika Lindblom, Lone Sunde, Sigve Nakken, Vincent Heuveline, John Burn, Eivind Hovig, Matthias Kloor, Julian R. Sampson, Mev Dominguez-Valentin, On behalf of the Prospective Lynch Syndrome Database (www.plsd.eu) and The European Hereditary Tumour Group (www.ehtg.org)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-10-01
Series:Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13053-023-00263-3

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