posted on 2021-11-29, 18:50authored byClaudia Perne, Sophia Peters, Maria Cartolano, Sukanya Horpaopan, Christina Grimm, Janine Altmüller, Anna K. Sommer, Axel M. Hillmer, Holger Thiele, Margarete Odenthal, Gabriela Möslein, Ronja Adam, Sugirthan Sivalingam, Jutta Kirfel, Michal R. Schweiger, Martin Peifer, Isabel Spier, Stefan Aretz
For all somatic variants of the nine MSH3-deficient adenomas including silent variants (952 variants) and for twelve HGCA (2390 variants), the proportions of indels and SNVs were calculated. In MSH3-deficient adenomas, 24% of all variants were indels, which was significantly higher (p < 0.0001) than in HGCA where the proportion of indels was 1.3%. HGCA = high-grade colon adenoma. Indel = insertion/deletion. SNV = Single Nucleotide Variant.