Article
[How and when to search for microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer in 2008?].
Annales de pathologie - 1 Dec 2007
Paraf François
Abstract excerpt
Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome is due to germline mutation of one the DNA mismatch repair genes. This mutation is associated with an unstable phenotype in tumor DNA characterized by new microsatellite alleles that are absent in matching normal DNA. Besides the Bethes...
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