Premature aging and predisposition to cancers caused by mutations in RecQ family helicases

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 928, Issue , 2001, Pages 121-131

  Furuichi, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a AGENE Research Institute   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bloom syndrome; Genomic instability; Rothmond Thomas syndrome; Werner syndrome

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HELICASE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; PREMATURE AGING; ROTHMUND THOMSON SYNDROME; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WERNER SYNDROME;

EID: 0035034884     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2001.tb05642.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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