[Regarding 20-aa repeats, the truncated APC gene retained 1 repeat due to allele loss in 96% (27/28) of colorectal tumors from profuse-type FAP, 69% (36/52) of sparse-type retained 2 repeats due to somatic mutation, and 100% (6/6) of attenuated-type retained 2 or 3 repeats due to the third or second hit.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE