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Classification and characterization of microsatellite instability across 18 cancer types.
Nature medicine - 1 Nov 2016
Hause Ronald J, Pritchard Colin C, Shendure Jay, Salipante Stephen J
Abstract excerpt
Microsatellite instability (MSI), the spontaneous loss or gain of nucleotides from repetitive DNA tracts, is a diagnostic phenotype for gastrointestinal, endometrial, and colorectal tumors, yet the landscape of instability events across a wider variety of cancer types remains poorly understood. To explore MSI across malignancies, we examined 5,930 cancer exomes from 18 cancer types at more than 200,000...
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