Human DNA mismatch repair proteins

摘要

The present invention discloses three human DNA repair proteins and DNA (RNA) encoding such proteins. The DNA repair proteins which may be produced by recombinant DNA techniques. One of the human DNA repair proteins, hMLH1, has been mapped to chromosome 3 while hMLH2 has been mapped to chromosome 2 and hMLH3 has been mapped to chromosome 7. The polynucleotide sequences of the DNA repair proteins may be used for diagnosis of a hereditary susceptibility to cancer.