Intermingling of chromosome territories in interphase suggests role in translocations and transcription-dependent associations

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 780-788

  Branco, Miguel R ^a   Pombo, Ana ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL TYPE; CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME CONDENSATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INTERPHASE; LYMPHOCYTE; MAMMAL CELL; CELL CULTURE; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CYTOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; GENE TRANSLOCATION; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; METABOLISM; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PHYSIOLOGY;

MAMMALIA;

CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; INTERPHASE; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33646729244     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040138     Document Type: Article

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