Unexpected complexity at breakpoint junctions in phenotypically normal individuals and mechanisms involved in generating balanced translocations t(1;22)(p36;q13)

Genome Research

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1733-1742

  Gajecka, Marzena ^a,b   Gentles, Andrew J ^c   Tsai, Albert ^d   Chitayat, David ^e   Mackay, Katherine L ^a   Glotzbach, Caron D ^a   Lieber, Michael R ^d   Shaffer, Lisa G ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HUMAN GENETICS   (Poland)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA TOPOISOMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE DELETION; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 22; DNA; DNA REPAIR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 55549126844     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.077453.108     Document Type: Article

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