The role of Alu repeat clusters as mediators of recurrent chromosomal aberrations in tumors

Genes Chromosomes and Cancer

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-112

  Kolomietz, Elena ^a   Meyn, M Stephen ^b   Pandita, Ajay ^a,c   Squire, Jeremy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ALU SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; LEUKEMIA; MIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ALU ELEMENTS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; HUMANS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NEOPLASMS; RECURRENCE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0036778597     PISSN: 10452257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gcc.10111     Document Type: Review

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