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Does a new model improve decisions about mismatch-repair genetic testing and Lynch syndrome identification?

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    Dimitrios H Roukos, Michael Fatouros, Epameinondas Tsianos & Angelos M Kappas

  2. professor at the Department of Surgery, E Tsianos is a professor and Head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Hepato-Gastroenterology Unit,

    Dimitrios H Roukos, Michael Fatouros, Epameinondas Tsianos & Angelos M Kappas

  3. professor and Head of the Department of Surgery, all at the Ioannina University School of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

    Dimitrios H Roukos, Michael Fatouros, Epameinondas Tsianos & Angelos M Kappas

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Roukos, D., Fatouros, M., Tsianos, E. et al. Does a new model improve decisions about mismatch-repair genetic testing and Lynch syndrome identification?. Nat Rev Clin Oncol 3, 656–657 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncponc0665

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