Origins of spontaneous mutations: Specificity and directionality of base-substitution, frameshift, and sequence-substitution mutageneses

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue , 2002, Pages 279-303

  Maki, Hisaji ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antimutator; DNA polymerase; DNA repair; Mutator; Oxygen radicals; Repetitive sequence; Replication fidelity

Indexed keywords

CELL METABOLISM; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TEMPLATE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE REPLICATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; MUTAGENESIS; MUTATION;

EID: 0036948404     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.36.042602.094806     Document Type: Review

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