Identification of mismatch repair genes and their role in the development of cancer

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 382-395

  Fishel, Richard ^a   Kolodner, Richard D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

BASE MISPAIRING; CANCER GENETICS; CARCINOGENESIS; COLON POLYPOSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, FUNGAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; HUMAN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEOPLASMS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 0029042130     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-437X(95)80055-7     Document Type: Article

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