Indecent Exposure: When Telomeres Become Uncapped

Molecular Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-18

  Ferreira, Miguel Godinho ^a   Miller, Kyle M ^a   Cooper, Julia Promisel ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KU ANTIGEN;

BUDDING; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; GENE CONTROL; GENE FUSION; GENETIC STABILITY; HUMAN; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; TELOMERE; YEAST;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 1642523697     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(03)00531-8     Document Type: Review

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