Atm inactivation results in aberrant telomere clustering during meiotic prophase

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 5096-5105

  Pandita, Tej K ^a,e   Westphal, Christoph H ^b   Anger, Melanie ^c   Sawant, Satin G ^a   Geard, Charles R ^a   Pandita, Raj K ^d   Scherthan, Harry ^c  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA; ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GONAD DYSFUNCTION; MALE; MEIOSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHASE; SPERMATOCYTE; SPERMATOGENESIS; TELOMERE;

ANIMALIA; ATAXIA; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA;

EID: 0033000784     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.7.5096     Document Type: Article

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