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A prospective population-based study recorded family trees of 77 colorectal cancer patients younger than 50 years of age. Using mathematical modeling of population age-incidence data, we estimate that 1 (95% confidence limits 0 and 3) of these families is expected to meet the Amsterdam criteria I for HNPCC due to chance clustering of colorectal cancer. © 2001 Cancer Research Campaign
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Katballe, N., Bentzen, S., Christensen, M. et al. Role of chance in familial aggregation of colorectal cancer. Br J Cancer 84, 1084–1086 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1054/bjoc.2000.1717
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