Sentences with phrase «n microsatellite»
High intake of marine ϖ - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is associated with lower risk of microsatellite instable (MSI) colorectal cancers (CRCs) but not microsatellite stable (MSS) CRCs, according to a new study published March 25 in the JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
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Microsatellites are a gene mapper's dream: not only are they repeated different numbers of times in different people, but they are scattered throughout the genome.
Where the mitochondrial DNA that Georgiadis analyzed provides just a single locus for comparison, Wasser's team compared up to 16 loci in each microsatellite sample — and the regional differences they found did not evaporate upon closer inspection.
Analysis of polymorphic microsatellites showed that the regions flanking COLQ are IBD, whereas those flanking the other 2 identified candidate genes are not.
However, this node in the microsatellite analysis is not well supported with a bootstrap value of 49.6 %.