Unusual chromatin in human telomeres

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 5777-5785

  Tommerup, Henrik ^a   Dousmanis, Athanasios ^a   De Lange, Titia ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; HELA CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 0028101019     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.14.9.5777     Document Type: Article

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