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Science 5 May 1995:
Vol. 268. no. 5211, pp. 738 - 740
DOI: 10.1126/science.7632227
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Science, Vol 268, Issue 5211, 738-740
Copyright © 1995 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Mismatch repair deficiency in phenotypically normal human cells

R Parsons, GM Li, M Longley, P Modrich, B Liu, T Berk, Hamilton SR, KW Kinzler, and B Vogelstein

Johns Hopkins Oncology Center, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA.

Tumor cells in patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) are characterized by a genetic hypermutability caused by defects in DNA mismatch repair. A subset of HNPCC patients was found to have widespread mutations not only in their tumors, but also in their non-neoplastic cells. Although these patients had numerous mutations in all tissues examined, they had very few tumors. The hypermutability was associated with a profound defect in mismatch repair at the biochemical level. These results have implications for the relation between mutagenesis and carcinogenesis, and they suggest that mismatch repair deficiency is compatible with normal human development.


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