Double-strand break repair pathways protect against CAG/CTG repeat expansions, contractions and repeat-mediated chromosomal fragility in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 184, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 65-77

  Sundararajan, Rangapriya ^a   Gellon, Lionel ^a   Zunder, Rachel M ^a,b   Freudenreich, Catherine H ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; GENE DELETION; GENE STRUCTURE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPEAT EXPANSION; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 74249111370     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.111039     Document Type: Article

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