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Abstract
Approximately 1-3% of gastric cancers arise as a result of inherited gastric cancer predisposition syndromes. These may be of the diffuse or intestinal type. Linkage analysis has recently implicated E-cadherin mutations in an estimated 25% of families with an autosomal dominant predisposition to diffuse type gastric cancers. This subset of gastric cancer has been termed hereditary diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC).Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15138199 PMCID: PMC1774077 DOI: 10.1136/gut.2003.022061
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Gut ISSN: 0017-5749 Impact factor: 23.059