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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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