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Universal Screening of Gastrointestinal Malignancies for Mismatch Repair Deficiency at Stanford.

Aser AbrhaNavika D ShuklaRachel HodanTeri LongacreShyam Sampath RaghavanColin C PritchardGeorge FisherJames FordSigurdis Haraldsdottir
Published in: JNCI cancer spectrum (2020)
Given the relatively high incidence of dMMR in GI malignancies, we recommend screening all GI malignancies. Our results suggest that although a rare occurrence, double somatic pathogenic variants may be a biologically significant pathway causing dMMR in pancreatic cancer.
Keyphrases
  • copy number
  • risk assessment
  • gene expression
  • aortic dissection