In Most Individuals with Inherited Colon Cancer Susceptibility Who Do

question 3

Multiple Choice

In most individuals with inherited colon cancer susceptibility who do not have excessive numbers of benign and premalignant polyps, the cancer susceptibility is caused by a heterozygous defect in a gene for:

• A)Postreplication mismatch repair.
• B)Genome-wide nucleotide excision repair.
• C)The lipid phosphatase PTEN.
• D)The antiapoptotic protein Bcl2.
• E)The transcriptional regulator p53.

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