From: Differences in K-rasand mitochondrial DNA mutations and microsatellite instability between colorectal cancers of Vietnamese and Japanese patients
Genetic alteration
Vietnamese CRCs
Japanese CRCs
p-value
K-ras mutation, present
8/24 (33%)
5/45 (11%)
0.048
MSI-H, present
6/27 (22%)
10/130 (8%)
0.030
mtDNA mutation, present
19/44 (43%)
11/133 (8%)
<0.001