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Evaluation of rapid microsatellite analysis of paraffin-embedded specimens in screening for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer.
Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc - 1 May 1999
Raedle J, Brieger A, Trojan J, Hardt T, Herrmann G, Zeuzem S
Abstract excerpt
Length alterations in short repetitive DNA sequences, termed microsatellite instability (MSI), are used as a diagnostic criterion of replication errors caused by various mutations in at least five mismatch repair genes. Therefore, MSI analysis is useful in clinical practice to identify patients with hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC). MSI can be detected by amplification of microsatellite loci in...
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