The molecular basis of common and rare fragile sites

Cancer Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 13-26

  Schwartz, Michal ^a   Zlotorynski, Eitan ^a   Kerem, Batsheva ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Common fragile sites; Genomic instability; Rare fragile sites; Replication stress

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME REPLICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUMOR;

ANIMALS; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FOLIC ACID; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 30344444783     PISSN: 03043835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canlet.2005.07.039     Document Type: Conference Paper

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