Patients with genetically heterogeneous synchronous colorectal cancer carry rare damaging germline mutations in immune-related genes
oleh: Matteo Cereda, Gennaro Gambardella, Lorena Benedetti, Fabio Iannelli, Dominic Patel, Gianluca Basso, Rosalinda F. Guerra, Thanos P. Mourikis, Ignazio Puccio, Shruti Sinha, Luigi Laghi, Jo Spencer, Manuel Rodriguez-Justo, Francesca D. Ciccarelli
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2016-07-01 |
Deskripsi
Some individuals present with multiple synchronous colorectal tumours, but the genetic understanding of this is unclear. Here, the authors use a sequencing strategy to show that the synchronous tumours are genetically independent and the patients harbour rare germline damaging mutations in genes associated with the immune system.