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. 2002 Apr;93(4):382–388. doi: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.2002.tb01268.x

Frequent and Multiple Mutations at Minisatellite Loci in Sporadic Human Colorectal and Gastric Cancers—Possible Mechanistic Differences from Microsatellite Instability in Cancer Cells

Hideaki Inamori 1, Sachiyo Takagi 1, Rie Tajima 1, Masako Ochiai 1, Tsuneyuki Ubagai 1, Takashi Sugimura 1, Minako Nagao 1,2, Hitoshi Nakagama 1,✉
PMCID: PMC5927018  PMID: 11985787

Abstract

Minisatellites (MNs), composed of 5 to 100 nucleotide repeat units, range from 0.5 to 30 kb in length, and have been reported to be mutated in various human malignancies. In this study, frequencies of MN mutations in sporadic human colorectal (34 cases) and gastric cancers (24 cases) at various clinicopathological stages were assessed by multilocus DNA fingerprint analysis with three MN probes, Pc‐1, 33.6 and 33.15. MN mutations were observed in both colorectal and gastric cancers, but at a significantly higher frequency in the former (56%) than in the latter (25%). Multiplicities of MN mutations were 1.50±1.81 and 0.46±1.10 in colorectal and gastric cancers, respectively, and the difference was also significant. Neither the presence nor multiplicity of MN mutations in either colorectal or gastric cancer cases had any correlation with the pathological stage, histological grading or the presence of microsatellite instability (MSI). Although the biological relevance of MN mutations still remains to be clarified, a subset of colorectal and gastric cancers could feature a new type of genomic instability, distinct from MSI.

Keywords: DNA fingerprint analysis, Colorectal cancer, Minisatellite mutation, Minisatellite instability, Microsatellite instability

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