Chromothripsis and cancer: Causes and consequences of chromosome shattering

Nature Reviews Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 663-670

  Forment, Josep V ^a   Kaidi, Abderrahmane ^a   Jackson, Stephen P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME SHATTERING; CHROMOTHRIPSIS; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; MICRONUCLEUS; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; DNA REPAIR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENES, TUMOR SUPPRESSOR; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84866728909     PISSN: 1474175X     EISSN: 14741768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrc3352     Document Type: Review

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