Chromosomal Distributions of Breakpoints in Cancer, Infertility, and Evolution

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 497-501

  Sankoff, David ^a   Deneault, Melanie ^a   Turbis, Pascal ^a   Allen, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chromosome aberrations; Genome rearrangement; Inversion; Nadeau Taylor hypothesis; Translocation

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOME INVERSION; CHROMOSOME MAP; EVOLUTION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MOUSE; NEOPLASM;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INVERSION, CHROMOSOME; MICE; NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 0036598803     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/tpbi.2002.1599     Document Type: Article

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