International polyposis registries exists that track known cases of FAP or APC gene defects, for research and clinical purposes.
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Human MSH has been implicated in non-polyposis colorectal carcinoma ( HNPCC ) and is a mismatch binding protein.
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Nichols was diagnosed with familial adenomatous polyposis when he was 19 . Doctors removed his colon, which was riddled with polyps.
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In colon cancer, familial adenomatous polyposis is very strongly associated with the FAP gene, but it is a rare defect.
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Kerr was the carrier of familial adenomatous polyposis, a rare inherited disease that causes hundreds of precancerous colon polyps to form.
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Mismatch repair cancer syndrome ( also called mismatch repair deficiency or Turcot syndrome ) typically combines familial adenomatous polyposis with brain tumors.
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More than 800 mutations in the APC gene have been identified in families with classic and attenuated types of familial adenomatous polyposis.
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Mutations in the MUTYH gene cause an autosomal recessive form of familial adenomatous polyposis ( also called MUTYH-associated polyposis ).
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Mutations in the MUTYH gene cause an autosomal recessive form of familial adenomatous polyposis ( also called MUTYH-associated polyposis ).
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Ms . Fagan herself has familial polyposis, as she discovered 10 years ago, when she was 26 and became very ill.
