Absence or low number of telomere repeats at junctions of dicentric chromosomes

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 83-86

  Wan, Thomas S K ^a   Martens, Uwe M ^b   Poon, Steven S S ^c   Tsao, Sai Wah ^a   Chan, L C ^a   Lansdorp, Peter M ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; ONCOGENE; OVARY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; WART VIRUS;

CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS, VIRAL; OVARY; PAPILLOMAVIRIDAE; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TELOMERE;

HUMAN PAPILLOMA VIRUS; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPES; PAPOVAVIRIDAE;

EID: 0032890295     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2264(199901)24:1<83::AID-GCC12>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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