Helicases and human diseases

Frontiers in Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Uchiumi, Fumiaki ^a   Seki, Masayuki ^b   Furuichi, Yasuhiro ^c  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GeneCare Research Institute Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Fanconi anemia; Genetic diseases; Helicasees; Premature aging; RecQ helicases; RNA helicases

Indexed keywords

DEAD BOX PROTEIN; DNA HELICASE; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN; RNA HELICASE; SMALL INTERFERING RNA;

AGE RELATED DISEASE; AGING; COCKAYNE SYNDROME; DISEASES; EDITORIAL; EPIGENETICS; EXCISION REPAIR; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; OVARY CANCER; PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL; SENESCENCE; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; VIRUS INFECTION; WERNER SYNDROME; XERODERMA PIGMENTOSUM;

EID: 84923587486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16648021     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2015.00039     Document Type: Editorial

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