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In the proband's sibship, 6 of 8 had cancer of differing anatomic sites. Eight female relatives, including his mother, her twin sister, and their daughters had ovarian carcinoma. The proband developed colon cancer at age 39 years. (1981) reported a family with a high incidence of cancer.

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A decline in incidence of gastric carcinoma and an increase in colonic cancer was found to have a parallel in Family G on update by Lynch and Krush (1971). Warthin's original description of 'Family G' ( Warthin, 1913) showed an excess of gastric cancer. (1973) suggested that among families with breast cancer some have an excess of ovarian cancer, others are prone to sarcoma, brain tumors and leukemia, whereas yet others have associated gastrointestinal cancer. Features of cancers with a genetic origin include early age of onset, bilaterality or multifocality, multiplicity of primary cancers, and, of course, familiality. Lynch and Lynch (1979) pointed out that cancer of the right colon is particularly characteristic of the cancer-family syndrome. (1966) and Lynch and Krush (1967) suggested the existence of a syndrome, which they called the 'cancer-family syndrome,' characterized by autosomal dominant inheritance of endometrial carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the colon, as well as multiple primary malignant neoplasms. Since defects in the MSH2 gene may account for as many as 60% of Lynch syndrome cases, and defects in the MLH1 gene may play a role in up to 30%, defects in these 2 genes likely account for the vast majority of Lynch syndrome cases.Īlso see HNPCC6 ( 614331), caused by mutation in the TGFBR2 gene ( 190182) and HNPCC7 ( 614385), caused by mutation in the MLH3 gene ( 604395).

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The Muir-Torre syndrome (MRTES 158320) is a form of Lynch syndrome associated with sebaceous skin tumors. An affected nephew carried the MSH2 mutation but not the PMS1 mutation. Lynch syndrome-8 ( 613244) results from epigenetic silencing of MSH2 caused by deletion of 3-prime exons of the EPCAM gene ( 185535) and intergenic regions directly upstream of the MSH2 gene.Ī form of HNPCC referred to as HNPCC3 was based upon a single report of germline mutation in the PMS1 gene ( 600258) however, the proband upon whom the report was based was later found to have a deletion in the MSH2 gene ( 609309).

See also Lynch syndrome-2 ( 609310), caused by mutation in the MLH1 gene ( 120436) Lynch syndrome-4 ( 614337), caused by mutation in the PMS2 gene ( 600259) and Lynch syndrome-5 ( 614350), caused by mutation in the MSH6 gene ( 600678). Lynch syndrome is a genetically heterogeneous disease. The previously preferred designation HNPCC was considered too restrictive for the Lynch syndrome phenotype, and the term 'Lynch syndrome' was proposed for the autosomal dominant disease caused by a germline mutation in a DNA mismatch repair gene ( Boland, 2005). The disorder was formerly subdivided into (1) Lynch syndrome I, or site-specific colonic cancer, and (2) Lynch syndrome II, or extracolonic cancer, particularly carcinoma of the stomach, endometrium (see 608089), biliary and pancreatic system, and urinary tract ( Lynch and Lynch, 1979 Lynch et al., 1985 Mecklin and Jarvinen, 1991). Lynch syndrome was designated hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) primarily to distinguish it from another cancer family syndrome, familial adenomatous polyposis (see 175100).

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