Mutation rate of a microsatellite sequence in normal human fibroblasts.

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Dinucleotide repeats, because of their repetitive nature, are prone to frameshift mutations, most likely via a DNA-polymerase slippage mechanism. Mutation rates in microsatellite DNA sequences are high in mismatch repair-defective cells. In normal cells, only estimates of maximal rates of mutation in microsatellites have been possible previously, because of the low sensitivity of screening assays for mutations in...

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