[Hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC or Lynch syndrome) is characterized by early occurrence of colorectal malignancies, localization of tumors in the proximal colon, frequency of multiple primaries (both synchronous and metachronous) and an autosomal dominant type of genetic transmission.]. 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