Microsatellite instability and its relevance to cutaneous tumorigenesis.

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Increasing evidence suggests that human tumors sequentially accumulate multiple mutations that cannot be explained by the low rates of spontaneous mutations in normal cells (2-3 mutations/cell). The mathematical models estimate that for the solid tumors to develop, as many as 6-12 mutations are required in each tumor cell. Therefore, to account for such high mutation rates, it is proposed that tumor cells are...

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