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NIPBL, a Cohesion Loading Factor, Is Somatically Mutated in Gastric and Colorectal Cancers with High Microsatellite Instability

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This work was supported by a grant from National Research Foundation of Korea (2012R1A5A2047939).

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Min Sung Kim and Chang Hyeok An contributed equally to this study.

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Kim, M.S., An, C.H., Chung, Y.J. et al. NIPBL, a Cohesion Loading Factor, Is Somatically Mutated in Gastric and Colorectal Cancers with High Microsatellite Instability. Dig Dis Sci 58, 3376–3378 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-013-2808-5

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