Expression of the MAP kinase phosphatase DUSP4 is associated
with microsatellite instability in colorectal cancer (CRC) and causes increased cell proliferation.
In all, there were 291 tumors with KRAS, 393 with NRAS, 393 with BRAF, 378
with microsatellite instability, and 533 with consensus molecular subtypes.
Using nuclear haplotypes
with microsatellites to study gene flow between recently separated Cichlid species Hey, J., Y. Won, A. Sivasundar, R. Nielsen, et al. 2004.
Not exact matches
The population - based study of 503 people
with colon cancer found that 14 percent of Caucasians and 7 percent of African - Americans had a genetic marker called
microsatellite instability, or MSI.
By matching
microsatellite lengths found in acorns against those of all the adult trees in the stand, Dow was able to identify the father of each acorn
with a high degree of certainty — if the father was present in the stand.
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA
microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer
with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.
The goal was to see if a mother ship
microsatellite could launch smaller daughter ships,
with all the satellites capable of sending magnetic field measurements to Earth.
Further investigation into how EWS / FLI associates
with GGAA -
microsatellites to drive transcription was the subject of a recent study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The
Microsatellite Center is a high - throughput genotyping laboratory dedicated to mapping monogenic and especially polygenic factors
with linkage analysis by using fluorescent detection of
microsatellites.
Another breakthrough came a few years later
with the discovery of «
microsatellites», short sequences of two to four nucleotides.
As a young Chinese scientist, I am participating in an exchange program
with Germany, having joined the Chinese - German
microsatellite genome research project at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany.
The samples were then analyzed
with a technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR), used to amplify specific nuclear «
microsatellites» for statistically measuring gene flow between the different populations and subpopulations located in the western South Atlantic (Breeding Stock A) and the eastern South Atlantic and Indian Ocean populations (Breeding Stocks B and C, and the Arabian Sea humpback whale population, respectively).
With the recent publication of a large data set of 763
microsatellite markers — short stretches of DNA that are repeated in the genome — from 53 populations in the Human Genome Diversity Project, evolutionary geneticists William Amos and Joe Hoffman of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom had enough genomic data to test both models.
Here, we used parentage analysis
with multilocus
microsatellite markers to measure how varying levels of genetic introgression
with non-native rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) affect reproductive success (number of offspring per adult) of native westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) in the wild.
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.
Both development of CRC and
microsatellite instability (MSI) are associated
with chronic inflammation.
In fact, the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients
with solid tumors and high
microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origin.
The FDA approved nivolumab (Opdivo), an anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor, for patients 12 years and older
with relapsed colorectal cancer that is characterized by high
microsatellite instability (MSI - hi).
The primary tumor location was an independent prognostic marker in patients
with RAS wild - type metastatic colorectal cancer after adjusting for age, gender, synchronous / metachronous disease, consensus molecular subtype, and
microsatellite instability and molecular status, according to the results of an analysis (abstract 3503) of data from CALGB / SWOG 80405 presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.
Using deCODE's national genealogy database, 100 of these patients were found to fall into 39 families, and a genome - wide scan was conducted
with 1000
microsatellite markers.
Dr. Eng presented how the Genomic Medicine Institute collaborated
with the Digestive Disease Institute and Pathology and Lab Medicine Institute to successfully integrate
microsatellite testing and mismatch repair protein immunohistochemistry into pathology routine for all colorectal carcinomas resected on Cleveland Clinic main campus.
Risk of
Microsatellite - Unstable Colorectal Cancer Is Associated Jointly
with Smoking and Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drug Use
Microsatellites were interpreted
with Data Collection Software version 3.0 and GeneMapper ID version 3.2 (Applied Biosystems).
CHFR silencing or
microsatellite instability is associated
with increased antitumor activity of docetaxel or gemcitabine in colorectal cancer.
3 ′ - UTR poly (T / U) repeat of EWSR1 is altered in
microsatellite unstable colorectal cancer
with nearly perfect sensitivity.
For the remaining 14 samples, a match was nearly perfect,
with only one or two of the
microsatellite markers varying, typically by only one repeat unit, as might be expected through
microsatellite instability within a pedigree.
The discovery of one of the genes resulted from the analysis of high - density SNP and
microsatellite genotyping of more than 900 men
with high body - mass index (BMI) and several hundred non-obese relatives and random controls.
No significant differences in genetic diversity were observed among populations by
microsatellite markers
with HE ranging from 0.597 to 0.612 and low, but significant, genetic differentiation among populations (FST = 0.019, P = 0.001).
SNP haplotypes spanning 3 genes were consistent
with autosomal recessive transmission, and
microsatellite data showed that only the segment encompassing COLQ was inherited IBD.
However, this node in the
microsatellite analysis is not well supported
with a bootstrap value of 49.6 %.
Previous estimates using
microsatellites and an ultrametric UPGMA bootstrap consensus tree based on (δμ) 2 genetic distances
with low support calculated the divergence of southern lineages (excluding San Nicolas) to be 5539 years ago and 12,000 years ago for the island fox lineage as a whole [14].
Interestingly, cats from Flinders and Tasman Islands have close affinity, in terms of
microsatellites,
with the Cocos Islands.