Global screening and extended nomenclature for 230 aphidicolin-inducible fragile sites, including 61 yet unreported ones

International Journal of Oncology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 929-940

  Mrasek, Kristin ^a   Schoder, Christiane ^a   Teichmann, Anne Christin ^a   Behr, Katja ^a   Franze, Britta ^a   Wilhelm, Kathleen ^a   Blaurock, Nancy ^a   Claussen, Uwe ^a   Liehr, Thomas ^a   Weise, Anja ^a  

^a Institute of Human Genetics and Anthropology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aphidicolin; Fragile sites; Nomenclature

Indexed keywords

APHIDICOLIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME PREPARATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOGENETICS; FRAGILE SITE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; KARYOTYPE; LYMPHOCYTE CULTURE; METAPHASE; NOMENCLATURE; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

APHIDICOLIN; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMOSOME FRAGILE SITES; CHROMOSOME FRAGILITY; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENOMICS; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; METAPHASE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77749331751     PISSN: 10196439     EISSN: 17912423     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000572     Document Type: Article

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