A Lynch syndrome that is characterized by a propensity to develop cancers of the gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary tract, and skin that has_material_basis_in mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes.
A Lynch syndrome that has_material_basis_in heterozygous deletion of the 3' part of the EPCAM gene and intergenic regions adjacent to the MSH2 gene on chromosome 2p21. This results in transcriptional read-through and silencing of MSH2 in tissues expressing EPCAM.