Genomics of Lynch syndrome and Constitutional mismatch repair deficiency syndrome

Introduction: The mismatch repair system plays an important role in maintaining the genome integrity as it functions to correct mismatches during DNA replication. Heterozygous mutations in one of the mismatch repair (MMR) genes e.g. MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 cause the dominant adult cancer syndrome...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamola, Lindiwe
Other Authors: Ramesar, Rajkumar
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27840