MUTATION IN THE DNA MISMATCH REPAIR GENE HOMOLOG HMLH1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLON-CANCER
MUTATION IN THE DNA MISMATCH REPAIR GENE HOMOLOG HMLH1 IS ASSOCIATED WITH HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS COLON-CANCER
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DOI:
10.1038/368258a0
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发表时间:
1994-03-17
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影响因子:
64.8
通讯作者:
LISKAY, RM
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作者:
BRONNER, CE;BAKER, SM;LISKAY, RM
THE human DNA mismatch repair gene homologue, hMSH2, on chromosome 2p is involved in hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer (HNPCC)(1,2). On the basis of linkage data, a second HNPCC locus was assigned to chromosome 3p21-23 (ref. 3). Here we report that a human gene encoding a protein, hMLH1 (human MutL homologue), homologous to the bacterial DNA mismatch repair protein MutL, is located on human chromosome 3p21.3-23. We propose that hMLH1 is the HNPCC gene located on 3p because of the similarity of the hMLH1 gene product to the yeast DNA mismatch repair protein, MLH1(4,5), the coincident location of the hMLH1 gene and the HNPCC locus on chromosome 3, and hMLH1 missense mutations in affected individuals from a chromosome 3-linked HNPCC family.