The cellular etiology of chromosome translocations

Current Opinion in Cell Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-364

  Roukos, Vassilis ^a   Burman, Bharat ^a,b   Misteli, Tom ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CYTOGENETICS; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HISTONE MODIFICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTONES; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84879242423     PISSN: 09550674     EISSN: 18790410     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ceb.2013.02.015     Document Type: Review

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