Role of non-coding RNA and heterochromatin in aneuploidy and cancer

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-130

  Pezer, Željka ^a   Ugarković, Durdica ^a  

^a RUDER BO KOVI INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Cancer; Centromere; Heterochromatin; Non coding RNA

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANEUPLOIDY; BASE PAIRING; CARCINOGENESIS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CODE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RNA INTERFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANIMALS; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RNA, UNTRANSLATED;

EID: 40249104567     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2008.01.003     Document Type: Review

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