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Identification of a breast tumor with microsatellite instability in a potential carrier of the hereditary non-polyposis colon cancer trait.
Clinical genetics - 1 Jun 1995
Bergthorsson J T, Egilsson V, Gudmundsson J, Arason A, Ingvarsson S
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Allelic expansion at microsatellite loci in colorectal tumor DNA indicates a genomic instability caused by defects in DNA mismatch repair. This is observed in a high proportion of tumors from individuals affected by hereditary non-polyposis colorectal carcinoma, but to a lesser extent in sporadic colorectal tumors. In this study we screened 46 colorectal tumors for replication errors (RER). Tumors from six...
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