Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome: Consequences of defective DNA double strand break repair

BioEssays

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 649-656

  Digweed, Martin ^a   Reis, André ^a,b   Sperling, Karl ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOME; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NIBRIN; NIJMEGEN BREAKAGE SYNDROME; RECESSIVE INHERITANCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; SYNDROME;

EID: 0033180301     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1521-1878(199908)21:8<649::AID-BIES4>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Review

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