Department of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77230, USA.
Clin Cancer Res. 2013 May 1;19(9):2280-2. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-13-0392. Epub 2013 Mar 26.
Inactivating germline mutations in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) genes are diagnostic for Lynch syndrome. However, the clinical significance of missense variants is uncertain. A threshold level of compromised MLH1 expression, correlating with greater protein instability and MMR functional defect, has been identified to help classify the pathogenicity of missense variants.
胚系 DNA 错配修复 (MMR) 基因突变失活可诊断林奇综合征。然而,错义变异的临床意义尚不确定。已经确定了 MLH1 表达受损的阈值水平,与更高的蛋白质不稳定性和 MMR 功能缺陷相关,以帮助分类错义变异的致病性。