Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 741-744 , August 2005

It Is Time to Get Serious About Diagnosing Lynch Syndrome (Hereditary Nonpolyposis Colorectal Cancer With Defective DNA Mismatch Repair) in the General Population

  • Jonathan P. Terdiman

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to: Jonathan P. Terdiman, MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2330 Post Street, Suite 610, San Francisco, California 94115. fax: (415) 502-2249.

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PII: S0016-5085(05)01195-9

doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2005.06.033

Gastroenterology
Volume 129, Issue 2 , Pages 741-744 , August 2005

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