The involvement of telomeric sequences in chromosomal aberrations

Mutation Research - Reviews in Genetic Toxicology

Volumn 366, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 129-135

  Bouffler, Simon D ^a   Morgan, William F ^b   Pandita, Tej K ^c   Slijepcevic, Predrag ^d  

^a PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

EID: 0030292885     PISSN: 01651110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1110(96)90033-0     Document Type: Article

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