Targeted disruption of ATM leads to growth retardation, chromosomal fragmentation during meiosis, immune defects, and thymic lymphoma

Genes and Development

Volumn 10, Issue 19, 1996, Pages 2411-2422

  Xu, Yang ^a   Ashley, Terry ^c   Brainerd, Elizabeth E ^c   Bronson, Roderick T ^b   Meyn, M Stephen ^c   Baltimore, David ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA damage; lymphoid development; Meiosis; tumorigenesis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GROWTH REGULATION; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTE DIFFERENTIATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMUS LYMPHOMA;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; EPICOCCUM;

EID: 0029844048     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.10.19.2411     Document Type: Article

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