Centromeres: The wild west of the post-genomic age

Epigenetics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 34-40

  Zeitlin, Samantha G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CENP A; Chromatin; DNA repair; Double strand breaks; UNG

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B;

CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; DNA BINDING; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; EPIGENETICS; GENOMICS; MITOSIS SPINDLE; NEOCENTROMERE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; REVIEW;

EID: 77449160275     PISSN: 15592294     EISSN: 15592308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/epi.5.1.10629     Document Type: Review

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