We screened 42 sporadic gastric tumors and found that seven of them had significant microsatellite instability. These were then studied at 26 microsatellite loci, comprising di-, tri- and tetranucleotide repeats. The instability level of individual microsatellites in the tumors was found to be positively correlated with the population average heterozygosity and variance of repeat number of the ...

background and objectives: hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (hnpcc) is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposition syndrome caused by germ-line mutations in dna mismatch repair genes. tumors arising as a result of these mutations display instability in a sequence area known as microsatellites. studies have shown that some bethesda markers (bat25, bat26) are more efficient than others i...

Background: The polymorphic variants at codon 72 of the p53 gene, encoding either proline or arginine at residue 72, produce marked change in the structure of p53. From the evidence that the DNAmismatch repair system and p53 interact to maintain genomic integrity, we hypothesized that the codon 72 variation may influence the prevalence of microsatellite instability; a feature of malignancies as...

Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) are distinct microscopic lesions of the colon thought to be the earliest identifiable precursors of colon cancer. As precursors of colon cancer, ACF may contain mutations in genes that are altered early in colorectal tumorigenesis. Candidates for these genes include APC, K-Ras, and those of the DNA mismatch repair system. Some colon cancers with mutations in DNA mismat...

Inorganic arsenicals are worldwide environmental contaminants that affect molecular characteristics in biological systems and lead to genomic and epigenomic instability as well as epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT). In this study, we aimed to investigate whether low levels of sodium arsenite (iAsIII) can influence EMT and genomic instability through microsatellite analysis. We have also de...

Microsatellite instability, one of the phenomena implicated in gastric cancer, is mainly associated with the expansion or contraction of microsatellite sequences due to replication errors caused most frequently by mutations in the mismatch repair (MMR) and tumour suppressor genes. Tumours exhibiting microsatellite instability are proven to have truncated products resulting from frequent mutatio...