Genome stability: Failure to unwind causes cancer

Current Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-267

  Watt, Paul M ^a   Hickson, Ian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BLOOM SYNDROME PROTEIN; HELICASE; RECQ HELICASE; RECQL PROTEIN, HUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SGS1 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; METABOLISM; NEOPLASM; REVIEW;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BLOOM SYNDROME; DNA HELICASES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RECQ HELICASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 0030091256     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00474-8     Document Type: Article

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