Haploinsufficiency and telomere length homeostasis

Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis

Volumn 730, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 37-42

  Harrington, Lea ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease; Haploinsufficiency; Telomerase; Telomeres

Indexed keywords

DYSKERIN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE;

ALLELE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; DYSKERATOSIS CONGENITA; EST2 GENE; EST3 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INHERITANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ANIMALS; GENE DOSAGE; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUTATION; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84855508921     PISSN: 00275107     EISSN: 09218262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2011.11.004     Document Type: Review

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