Novel dominant mutations in Saccharomyces cerevisiae MSH6

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 53-56

  Das Gupta, Ruchira ^a   Kolodner, Richard D ^a  

^a LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; COLORECTAL CANCER; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS, HEREDITARY NONPOLYPOSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, DOMINANT; HUMANS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033989249     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/71684     Document Type: Article

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