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SUBMITTER: Venderbosch S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4422840 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Venderbosch S S van Vliet S S Craenmehr M H C MH Simmer F F de Haan A F J AF Punt C J A CJ Koopman M M Nagtegaal I D ID
Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology 20150220 5
Mitochondrial microsatellite instability (mtMSI), a change in length in mtDNA microsatellite sequences between normal and tumor tissue, has been described as a frequent occurrence in colorectal cancer (CRC). We evaluated the prevalence and prognostic value of mtMSI and its relation to nuclear microsatellite instability (MSI) in patients with metastatic CRC (mCRC). At six loci (D310, D514, D16184, ND1, ND5, and COX1), the mitochondrial DNA sequence was analyzed in normal and tumor tissue, and the ...[more]