Disruption of dog-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans triggers deletions upstream of guanine-rich DNA

Nature Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-409

  Cheung, Iris ^a,b   Schertzer, Michael ^a   Rose, Ann ^b   Lansdorp, Peter M ^a,b  

^a BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; GUANINE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE; HELICASE; PROTEIN DOG 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUNCTION; DNA FLANKING REGION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC STABILITY; GENOME; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

3' FLANKING REGION; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, INTERGENIC; FERTILITY; GUANINE; HEAD; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; POLY G; RECEPTOR PROTEIN-TYROSINE KINASES; RNA, HELMINTH; SEQUENCE DELETION;

CAENORHABDITIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CANIS FAMILIARIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEMATODA;

EID: 0036699095     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng928     Document Type: Article

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