- Title
- Deletion mutations in an Australian series of HNPCC patients
- Creator
- McPhillips, Mary; Meldrum, C. J.; Scott, Rodney J; Creegan, Rhona; Edkins, Edward
- Relation
- Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 43-47
- Publisher
- Termedia Publishing House
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2005
- Description
- Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is characterized by the presence of early onset colorectal cancer and other epithelial malignancies. The genetic basis of HNPCC is a deficiency in DNA mismatch repair, which manifests itself as DNA microsatellite instability in tumours. There are four genes involved in DNA mismatch repair that have been linked to HNPCC; these include hMSH2, hMLH1, hMSH6 and hPMS2. Of these four genes hMLH1 and hMSH2 account for the majority of families diagnosed with the disease. Notwithstanding, up to 40 percent of families do not appear to harbour a change in either hMSH2 or hMLH1 that can be detected using standard screening procedures such as direct DNA sequencing or a variety of methods all based on a heteroduplex analysis. In this report we have screened a series of 118 probands that all have the clinical diagnosis of HNPCC for medium to large deletions by the Multiplex Ligation-Dependent Probe Amplification assay (MLPA) to determine the frequency of this type of mutation. The results indicate that a significant proportion of Australian HNPCC patients harbour deletion or duplication mutations primarily in hMSH2 but also in hMLH1.
- Subject
- Deletion mutations; HNPCC; Multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification assay
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/25278
- Identifier
- uon:458
- Identifier
- ISSN:1731-2302
- Language
- eng
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