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The most aggressive form of APS, with &amp;gt;100 polyps before the age of 45 years, is mostly caused by germline pathogenic variants in the <jats:italic>APC<\/jats:italic> gene but patients with germline variants in the <jats:italic>MUTYH<\/jats:italic> and, very rarely, in the <jats:italic>SMAD4<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>BMPR1A<\/jats:italic> genes were also reported. Routine molecular testing methods, such as Sanger sequencing, multiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification (MLPA) or multigene NGS panels, may fail to detect pathogenic variants in non-coding regions.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Patients and methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>DNA from blood samples of 10 patients (with age of APS manifestation between 15 and 45 years) with over 100 adenomatous colonic polyps identified by endoscopic examination was subjected to whole genome sequencing (WGS). Prior genetic testing did not detect any germline pathogenic variants in the <jats:italic>APC<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>MUTYH<\/jats:italic> coding exons in these patients.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pathogenic and likely pathogenic germline variants in non-coding regions of genes were identified in 3 patients. Two unrelated patients had the same c.-190G&amp;gt;A (rs879253785) in the 1B promoter of the <jats:italic>APC<\/jats:italic> gene (NM_001127511.3), while the third patient had a c.-152-2A&amp;gt;G variant in the <jats:italic>BMPR1A<\/jats:italic> gene (NM_004329.3). 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