Telomere dysfunction promotes non-reciprocal translocations and epithelial cancers in mice

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6796, 2000, Pages 641-645

  Artandl, Steven E ^a   Chang, Sandy ^a,b   Lee, Shwu Luan ^a   Alson, Scott ^a   Gottlieb, Geoffrey J ^c,d   Chin, Lynda ^a,e   DePinho, Ronald A ^a,e  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CPI Ameripath Laboratory   (United States)

^d ACKERMAN ACADEMY OF DERMATOPATHOLOGY   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPROTEIN; PROTEIN P53; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; TELOMERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; CELL AGING; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COLON CARCINOMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGING; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENES, P53; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MAMMARY NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; MICE; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; SARCOMA, EXPERIMENTAL; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0034632717     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020592     Document Type: Article

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