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hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer type 8 (DOID:0070270)
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Synonyms: HNPCC8
Alt IDs: OMIM:613244
Definition: A Lynch syndrome that has_material_basis_in heterozygous deletion of the 3' part of the EPCAM gene and intergenic regions adjacent to the MSH2 gene on chromosome 2p21. This results in transcriptional read-through and silencing of MSH2 in tissues expressing EPCAM.

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Mouse Genome Database (MGD), Gene Expression Database (GXD), Mouse Models of Human Cancer database (MMHCdb) (formerly Mouse Tumor Biology (MTB)), Gene Ontology (GO)
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