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Inventor: Aaltonen; Lauri A.
Address: Espoo, FI
No. of patents: 1
Patents:
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Date Issued |
| 6423491 |
Method of diagnosing juvenile polyposis (JP) |
July 23, 2002 |
| Familial juvenile polyposis is an autosomal dominant disease characterized by a predisposition to hamartomatous polyps and gastrointestinal cancer. The present invention shows that JP families carry germline mutations in SMAD4/DPC4, a gene on chromosome 18q21.1. The mutant SMAD4 proteins |
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