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Harnessing mismatch repair to model sporadic cancers

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Two mouse models that initiate sporadic tumors seek to recapitulate spontaneously arising human cancers.

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Figure 1: Two mouse models designed to recapitulate the initial sporadic mutation step(s) of tumorigenesis.

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  1. Richard Fishel and Joanna Groden are in the Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. rfishel@osu.edu or groden.2@osu.edu,

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