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SUBMITTER: Aretz S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4060104 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Aretz Stefan S Tricarico Rossella R Papi Laura L Spier Isabel I Pin Elisa E Horpaopan Sukanya S Cordisco Emanuela Lucci EL Pedroni Monica M Stienen Dietlinde D Gentile Annamaria A Panza Anna A Piepoli Ada A de Leon Maurizio Ponz MP Friedl Waltraut W Viel Alessandra A Genuardi Maurizio M
European journal of human genetics : EJHG 20130130 7
MUTYH-associated polyposis (MAP) is an autosomal recessive adenomatous polyposis caused by biallelic germline mutations of the base-excision-repair gene MUTYH. In MAP patients of European origin, the combined allele frequency of the mutations p.Tyr179Cys and p.Gly396Asp ranges between 50 and 82%, while these mutations have not been identified in Far Eastern Asian populations, supporting the hypothesis that a founder effect has occurred at some point in European history. To investigate the natura ...[more]