Telomere extension by telomerase and ALT generates variant repeats by mechanistically distinct processes

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1733-1746

  Lee, Michael ^a   Hills, Mark ^b   Conomos, Dimitri ^a,c   Stutz, Michael D ^a   Dagg, Rebecca A ^c,d   Lau, Loretta M S ^c,d   Reddel, Roger R ^a,c   Pickett, Hilda A ^a,c  

^a CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b BRITISH COLUMBIA CANCER AGENCY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

ALTERNATIVE LENGTHENING OF TELOMERE; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRUCTURE; DNA SYNTHESIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

CELL LINE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84896708650     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1117     Document Type: Article

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