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Routine detection of the replication error phenotype in clinical tumor specimens using fluorescence-SSCP.
BioTechniques - 1 Mar 2000
Iacopetta B, Grieu F
Abstract excerpt
Almost all tumors from patients with hereditary non-polyposis colon carcinoma and approximately 10%-15% of sporadic colon and gastric carcinomas contain widespread deletions within mono- and dinucleotide repeat sequences in their DNA. This is referred to as the replication error (RER+) phenotype and, in the case of colon carcinoma, is often associated with an improved tumor prognosis and possibly also with...
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