The role of double-strand break repair pathways at functional and dysfunctional telomeres

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Doksani, Ylli ^a   de Lange, Titia ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAMMALIA;

SHELTERIN, HUMAN; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; DNA REPAIR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; TELOMERE; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84919390877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a016576     Document Type: Article

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