Mutator phenotype in cancer: Origin and consequences

Seminars in Cancer Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 279-280

  Loeb, Lawrence A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA POLYMERASE; RECQ HELICASE;

CANCER GENETICS; CANCER STEM CELL; CARCINOGENESIS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; EDITORIAL; GENE MUTATION; TUMOR GROWTH;

CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; DNA REPAIR; DNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; DRUG RESISTANCE, NEOPLASM; GENES, NEOPLASM; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; HUMANS; MUTATION; NEOPLASMS; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 78649471907     PISSN: 1044579X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2010.10.006     Document Type: Editorial

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