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Zeinab Abdollahi1, Mohammad Amin Tabatabaiefar1,2, Mahnaz Noruzi3
1Department of Genetics and Molecular Biology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Objective:
The most important tumor characteristic of Lynch syndrome (LS) is microsatellite instability (MSI). In the current study, BAT34c4 and BAT26 mononucleotide markers were evaluated as part of efforts to test a cost-effective panel for MSI testing in Iranian patients, comparing it with the Promega kit.
Methods:
Amsterdam II clinical criteria were used to identify patients at risk for LS. The MSI status of these patients was determined using BAT34c4 and BAT26 markers, as well as the Promega kit. The results of both methods were compared, and the sensitivity and specificity of new short tandem repeat (STR) markers were estimated using statistical formulas.
Results:
Of the 37 patients we studied who were at risk for LS, 27% showed MSI-high results, via the Promega kit. The same results were achieved for BAT34c4 and BAT26 separately.
Conclusions:
The novel 2-marker kit for MSI testing has similar accuracy as the Promega kit at a lower cost, due to fewer markers and a more economical labeling method.
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