💨 Abstract

An international research team, led by the University of California, San Diego, has identified the bacterial toxin colibactin as a potential cause of early-onset colorectal cancer. Exposure to colibactin in early childhood could leave a distinctive genetic signature on colon cells, increasing the risk of developing colorectal cancer before age 50. The study, published in Nature, found that colibactin-related mutations were 3.

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