Activation of the ALT pathway for telomere maintenance can affect other sequences in the human genome

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1785-1794

  Jeyapalan, Jennie N ^a   Varley, Helen ^a   Foxon, Jenny L ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^b   Jeffreys, Alec J ^a   Henson, Jeremy D ^c   Reddel, Roger R ^c   Royle, Nicola J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; GERM LINE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TANDEM REPEAT; TELOMERE;

CELL LINE, TUMOR; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MUTATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 26444460886     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi185     Document Type: Article

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