Building centromeres: Home sweet home or a nomadic existence?

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Buscaino, Alessia ^a   Allshire, Robin ^a   Pidoux, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; CENTROMERE PROTEIN B; HISTONE H3;

CENTROSOME; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA SEQUENCE; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GENOMICS; HETEROCHROMATIN; HUMAN; KINETOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN VARIANT; REVIEW;

EID: 77952243549     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(10)00053-5     Document Type: Review

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