Mammalian telomeres and chromosome fragmentation

Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 41-48

  Farr, Christine J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

(TTAGGG)n repeat; Chromosome instability; Mammalian artificial chromosome (MAC); Telomerase; Telomere seeding

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0002026661     PISSN: 10849521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/scdb.1996.0007     Document Type: Article

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