Païvi Peltomäki

Lynch syndrome (LS) is a prevalent cause of hereditary gynecological cancers. DNA mismatch repair (MMR) defects are important players in LS tumorigenesis, but the developmental steps leading to malignancy are incompletely understood. We und…

Diagnosis and treatment of epithelial ovarian cancer is challenging due to the poor understanding of the pathogenesis of the disease. Our aim was to investigate epigenetic mechanisms in ovarian tumorigenesis and, especially, whether tumors …

Hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC), also known as Lynch syndrome, is a common autosomal dominant syndrome characterized by early age at onset, neoplastic lesions, and microsatellite instability (MSI). Because cancers with MSI…