The expanding universe of cohesin functions: A new genome stability caretaker involved in human disease and cancer

Human Mutation

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 623-630

  Mannini, Linda ^a   Menga, Stefania ^a   Musio, Antonio ^a,b  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO TOSCANO TUMORI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cohesin; Cornelia de Lange syndrome; Genome instability; Roberts syndrome

Indexed keywords

ATM PROTEIN; COHESIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SECURIN; SEPARASE; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; NONHISTONE PROTEIN;

BREAST CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; COLORECTAL CANCER; DE LANGE SYNDROME; DNA DAMAGE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; DROSOPHILA; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MISSENSE MUTATION; NONHUMAN; NONSENSE MUTATION; OSTEOSARCOMA; PATHOGENESIS; PHOCOMELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PROTEIN DNA BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REGULATOR GENE; REVIEW; ROBERTS SYNDROME; SISTER CHROMATID; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; MUTATION; NEOPLASM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DE LANGE SYNDROME; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 77952729734     PISSN: 10597794     EISSN: 10981004     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/humu.21252     Document Type: Review

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