Microsatellite instability: The mutator that mutates the other mutator

Nature Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 630-631

  Perucho, Manuel ^a  

^a BURNHAM INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

CANCER; CANCER GENETICS; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADENOMA; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI; ADENOMATOUS POLYPOSIS COLI PROTEIN; ANIMALS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DNA REPAIR; DNA, SATELLITE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HUMANS; MICE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION; MUTS HOMOLOG 2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASMS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 0029941476     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm0696-630     Document Type: Note

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