label: Lynch syndrome 8
label_lc: lynch syndrome 8
description: Any hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer in which the cause of the disease is a  heterozygous deletion of 3-prime exons of the EPCAM gene and intergenic regions directly upstream of the MSH2 gene, resulting in transcriptional read-through and epigenetic silencing of MSH2 in tissues expressing EPCAM.