Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?

The APC I1307K allele is believed to predispose to multiple colorectal tumours because the change at the nucleotide level-A(3)TA(4) to A(8)-creates a hypermutable site. Slippage of the A(8) tract undoubtedly occurs more often than expected in the tumours of I1307K carriers, but many of these tumours...

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Main Authors: Sieber, O, Lipton, L, Heinimann, K, Tomlinson, I
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2003
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author Sieber, O
Lipton, L
Heinimann, K
Tomlinson, I
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Heinimann, K
Tomlinson, I
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description The APC I1307K allele is believed to predispose to multiple colorectal tumours because the change at the nucleotide level-A(3)TA(4) to A(8)-creates a hypermutable site. Slippage of the A(8) tract undoubtedly occurs more often than expected in the tumours of I1307K carriers, but many of these tumours do not harbour changes at this site. Outside the A(8) tract, the tumours of I1307K carriers appear to harbour fewer somatic frameshift mutations than expected. There is inconsistent evidence as to whether or not I1307K confers an increased risk of colorectal cancer. Most I1307K patients and families who have undergone analysis of somatic APC mutations have been highly selected. It is therefore possible that many APC I1307K carriers with multiple adenomas have a susceptibility to tumours additional to that resulting from the A(8) tract.
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spelling oxford-uuid:71654171-9a18-4341-be1b-b62e7545b1c02022-03-26T19:43:15ZColorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:71654171-9a18-4341-be1b-b62e7545b1c0EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2003Sieber, OLipton, LHeinimann, KTomlinson, IThe APC I1307K allele is believed to predispose to multiple colorectal tumours because the change at the nucleotide level-A(3)TA(4) to A(8)-creates a hypermutable site. Slippage of the A(8) tract undoubtedly occurs more often than expected in the tumours of I1307K carriers, but many of these tumours do not harbour changes at this site. Outside the A(8) tract, the tumours of I1307K carriers appear to harbour fewer somatic frameshift mutations than expected. There is inconsistent evidence as to whether or not I1307K confers an increased risk of colorectal cancer. Most I1307K patients and families who have undergone analysis of somatic APC mutations have been highly selected. It is therefore possible that many APC I1307K carriers with multiple adenomas have a susceptibility to tumours additional to that resulting from the A(8) tract.
spellingShingle Sieber, O
Lipton, L
Heinimann, K
Tomlinson, I
Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title_full Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title_fullStr Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title_full_unstemmed Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title_short Colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the APC I1307K variant: lone gunman or conspiracy?
title_sort colorectal tumourigenesis in carriers of the apc i1307k variant lone gunman or conspiracy
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