An international study has developed a refined method to identify people at risk for certain inherited cancers as a result of Lynch syndrome. The study has been performed by clinicians and researchers who are part of the International Society for Gastrointestinal Hereditary Tumours (InSiGHT) and analysed the role of different genetic variants involved in Lynch syndrome. Read more here.
Study mentioned: Thompson BA, et al. Application of a 5-tiered scheme for standardized classification of 2,360 unique mismatch repair gene variants in the InSiGHT locus-specific database. Nat Genet. 2013 Dec 22. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 24362816
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