Strange bedfellows in even stranger places: The role of ATM in meiotic cells, lymphocytes, tumors, and its functional links to p53

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2383-2388

  Hawley, R Scott ^a   Friend, Stephen H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 0029824596     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.19.2383     Document Type: Review

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