Radiation-induced total-deletion mutations in the human hprt gene: A biophysical model based on random walk interphase chromatin geometry

International Journal of Radiation Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-156

  Wu, H ^a,b   Sachs, R K ^c   Yang, T C ^a  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b Kelsey Seybold Clinic   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROBLAST; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERPHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION MUTAGENESIS; X IRRADIATION;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH;

BIOPHYSICS; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME WALKING; DNA; DNA DAMAGE; FIBROBLASTS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; HYPOXANTHINE PHOSPHORIBOSYLTRANSFERASE; INTERPHASE; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, GENETIC; MUTATION;

EID: 0031939669     PISSN: 09553002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/095530098142527     Document Type: Article

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