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Frameshift somatic mutations in gastrointestinal cancer of the microsatellite mutator phenotype.
Cancer research - 1 Oct 1997
Yamamoto H, Sawai H, Perucho M
Abstract excerpt
An exacerbated genomic instability characterizes hereditary and sporadic gastrointestinal cancer of the microsatellite mutator phenotype (MMP), generating somatic frameshift mutations in genes containing mononucleotide repeats. We have recently shown that approximately 50, 40, and 30% of MMP+ colon tumors harbor frameshift mutations in (G)8, (A)8, and (C)8 tracks within the proapoptotic gene BAX and the hMSH3 and...
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