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STR typing of ductal adenocarcinomas of the pancreas and healthy control tissue in 18 individuals.
Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) - 1 Jul 2004
Schwark Thorsten, Bachmann Christel, von Wurmb-Schwark Nicole
Abstract excerpt
Recently, different work groups have demonstrated that short tandem repeat (STR) typing of various tumor tissues may lead to erroneous results due to tumor microsatellite instability (MSI). This may have considerable implications for genetic profiling of tumor tissue, e.g. in paternity testing or sample individualization. To elucidate whether this is true for ductal adenocarcinomas (DAC) of the pancreas, we...
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