Widespread and nonrandom distribution of DNA palindromes in cancer cells provides a structural platform for subsequent gene amplification

Nature Genetics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 320-327

  Tanaka, Hisashi ^a   Bergstrom, Donald A ^b   Yao, Meng Chao ^a,c   Tapscott, Stephen J ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA; DNA;

ARTICLE; CANCER CELL; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MICROARRAY; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOME; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; STRUCTURAL CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; GENETICS; NEOPLASM; PATHOLOGY; TUMOR CELL LINE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA, NEOPLASM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE ARRAY SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 15044351972     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng1515     Document Type: Article

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