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A genome-wide view of microsatellite instability: old stories of cancer mutations revisited with new sequencing technologies.
Cancer research - 15 Nov 2014
Kim Tae-Min, Park Peter J
Abstract excerpt
Microsatellites are simple tandem repeats that are present at millions of loci in the human genome. Microsatellite instability (MSI) refers to DNA slippage events on microsatellites that occur frequently in cancer genomes when there is a defect in the DNA-mismatch repair system. These somatic mutations can result in inactivation of tumor-suppressor genes or disrupt other noncoding regulatory sequences, thereby...
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