Rapid accumulation of genome rearrangements in liver but not in brain of old mice

Nature Genetics

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 431-434

  Dollé, Martijn E T ^a   Giese, Heidi ^a   Hopkins, Craig L ^a   Martus, Hans Jörg ^a   Hausdorff, Jeffrey M ^a   Vijg, Jan ^a  

^a HARVARD INSTITUTES OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; LIVER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS;

EID: 0030699271     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1297-431     Document Type: Article

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