Characteristics of 356 White Colorectal Cancer Families with No Evidence of Defective Mismatch Repair, N (%).

aAscertainment method not reported.
bMicrosatellite stability of the tumor; MSS indicates that the tumor was microsatellite stable; MSI-L indicates that the tumor had low microsatellite instability; Unknown indicates that the tumor stability status was not available.
cMismatch repair status of the tumor by immunohistochemical analysis; No loss indicates that the tumor showed complete presence of protein expression of all the MMR genes tested (MLH1, MSH2, MSH6, and PMS2); Unknown indicates that the tumor MMR-expression status was not available.
dUnknown for both MSI and IHC on 67 families is due to not being tested but had a LOD<0.04 within 20 kb surrounding MSH2, MLH1, MSH6, PMS2, PMS1, MSH3, or MLH3.