Two grades (high and low) of microsatellite instability (MSI) are known, depending on the number of mutated markers and the amount of allelic shifts. Forty-two colorectal tumors, previously found to have high-degree MSI at dinucleotidic repeat loci, were revisited with BAT26, a mononucleotide marker
Genomic instability and colon cancer
โ Scribed by William M. Grady
- Book ID
- 111554317
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 329 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-7659
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