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Microsatellite Instability

"Microsatellite Instability" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The occurrence of highly polymorphic mono- and dinucleotide MICROSATELLITE REPEATS in somatic cells. It is a form of genome instability associated with defects in DNA MISMATCH REPAIR.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Microsatellite Instability" by people in this website by year, and whether "Microsatellite Instability" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 15 distinct years, with a maximum of 6 publications in 2019 and 2021
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