Transposable elements - Is there a link between evolution and cancer?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 580-591

  Hauptmann, Steffen ^a   Schmitt, Wolfgang D ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

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CANCER; CANCER CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CELL SURVIVAL; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENOME; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; ONCOGENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSPOSON;

EID: 30344488422     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.08.051     Document Type: Article

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