Microsatellite mutations are useful markers of both tumor clonality and genomic instability but the origin of the mutator mutations responsible is still not well understood (pages 676–681).
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Perucho, M. Microsatellite instability: The mutator that mutates the other mutator. Nat Med 2, 630–631 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0696-630
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