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Enhanced detection of microsatellite instability using pre-PCR elimination of wild-type DNA homo-polymers in tissue and liquid biopsies
28 Mar 2018
Abstract excerpt
Detection of microsatellite-instability in colonoscopy-obtained polyps, as well as in plasma-circulating DNA, is frequently confounded by sensitivity issues due to co-existing excessive amounts of wild-type DNA. While also an issue for point mutations, this is particularly problematic for microsatellite changes, due to the high false-positive artifacts generated by polymerase slippage (stutter-bands). Here, we...
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