Telomere disruption results in non-random formation of de novo dicentric chromosomes involving acrocentric human chromosomes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Stimpson, Kaitlin M ^a   Song, Ihn Young ^b   Jauch, Anna ^c   Holtgreve Grez, Heidi ^c   Hayden, Karen E ^a   Bridger, Joanna M ^d   Sullivan, Beth A ^a,e  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENTROMERE PROTEIN A; DNA;

ACROCENTRIC CHROMOSOME; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELL FATE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME SATELLITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICENTRIC CHROMOSOME; EPIGENETICS; GENOMIC FRAGMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; TELOMERE;

CELL LINE; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; DNA, SATELLITE; HUMANS; TELOMERE;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 77957344530     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001061     Document Type: Article

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