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ReviewExpert reviews in molecular medicine2022

Mismatch repair is a double-edged sword in the battle against microsatellite instability.

Carson J Miller, Karen Usdin

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Review in Expert reviews in molecular medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Mechanism of MutLβ-dependent DNA expansions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
    Article
  3. Emerging drivers of DNA repeat expansions.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025
    Review
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  8. The mismatch repair factor Mlh1-Pms1 uses ATP to compact and remodel DNA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
    Article
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  13. Can MSH3 lowering stop HTT repeat expansion in its CAG tract?Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Carson J MillerLaboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5459-7015
Karen UsdinLaboratory of Cell and Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3295-0740
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Roughly 3% of the human genome consists of microsatellites or tracts of short tandem repeats (STRs). These STRs are often unstable, undergoing high-frequency expansions (increases) or contractions (decreases) in the number of repeat units. Some microsatellite instability (MSI) is seen at multiple STRs within a single cell and is associated with certain types of cancer. A second form of MSI is characterised by expansion of a single gene-specific STR and such expansions are responsible for a group of 40+ human genetic disorders known as the repeat expansion diseases (REDs). While the mismatch repair (MMR) pathway prevents genome-wide MSI, emerging evidence suggests that some MMR factors are directly involved in generating expansions in the REDs. Thus, MMR suppresses some forms of expansion while some MMR factors promote expansion in other contexts. This review will cover what is known about the paradoxical effect of MMR on microsatellite expansion in mammalian cells.

Indexed as

DNA Mismatch RepairMicrosatellite InstabilityAnimalsGenomic InstabilityHumansMammalsMicrosatellite RepeatsMicrosatellite instability (MSI)Mismatch Repair (MMR)Repeat expansion DiseasesShort tandem repeats (STRs)

Identifiers

PMID36059110
PMCPMC9884765
OpenAlexW4294626630

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