Telomere heterogeneity: Taking advantage of stochastic events

FEBS Letters

Volumn 583, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1067-1071

  Tomaska, Lubomir ^a   Nosek, Jozef ^a  

^a Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Heterogeneity; Stochasticity; Telomere

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; EXONUCLEASE; TELOMERASE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; TELOMERE;

DNA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; TELOMERE;

EID: 62849095755     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.02.032     Document Type: Article

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