Telomerase mutations in aplastic anemia

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 352, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 1481-1483

  Fibbe, Willem E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE; DNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ALLOGENEIC STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; APLASTIC ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; MUTATION; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; BONE MARROW; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANEMIA, APLASTIC; BONE MARROW; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; MUTATION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 15944375831     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe058015     Document Type: Editorial

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