Rag mutations reveal robust alternative end joining

Nature

Volumn 449, Issue 7161, 2007, Pages 483-486

  Corneo, Barbara ^a,b   Wendland, Rebecca L ^a   Deriano, Ludovic ^a   Cui, Xiaoping ^c   Klein, Isaac A ^a   Wong, Serre Yu ^a   Arnal, Suzzette ^a   Holub, Abigail J ^a   Weller, Geoffrey R ^a   Pancake, Bette A ^a   Shah, Sundeep ^d,e   Brandt, Vicky L ^a   Meek, Katheryn ^c   Roth, David B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; RAG PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME; DNA; MUTATION; PROTEIN; RECOMBINATION; TRANSLOCATION;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NON HOMOLOGOUS END JOINING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; MURINAE;

EID: 34848843525     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature06168     Document Type: Article

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