MutS homologs in mammalian cells

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 105-113

  Fishel, Richard ^a   Wilson, Teresa ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; BASE MISPAIRING; COLON CANCER; DNA REPAIR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031059532     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(97)80117-7     Document Type: Article

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