Article
Mitochondrial genome instability in human cancers.
Mutation research - 1 Mar 2001
Bianchi N O, Bianchi M S, Richard S M
Abstract excerpt
Malfunction of mismatch repair (MMR) genes produces nuclear genome instability (NGI) and plays an important role in the origin of some hereditary and sporadic human cancers. The appearance of non-inherited microsatellite alleles in tumor cells (microsatellite instability, MSI) is one of the expressions of NGI. We present here data showing mitochondrial genome instability (mtGI) in most of the human cancers...
Read the complete abstract on PubMedTopics
Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.
