Sources of DNA double-strand breaks and models of recombinational DNA repair

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Mehta, Anuja ^a   Haber, James E ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUCIFORM DNA;

ANIMAL; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOME; DNA REPLICATION; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOMBINATION REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE; CHROMOSOMES; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, CRUCIFORM; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RECOMBINATIONAL DNA REPAIR; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84903757525     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016428     Document Type: Article

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