Palindromic gene amplification - An evolutionarily conserved role for DNA inverted repeats in the genome

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 215-224

  Tanaka, Hisashi ^a   Yao, Meng Chao ^b  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PALINDROMIC DNA;

GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA; TUMOR CELL; ANIMAL; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; NEOPLASM;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; EVOLUTION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENOME; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; NEOPLASMS; TETRAHYMENA THERMOPHILA;

EID: 60749110613     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc2591     Document Type: Review

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