The Fanconi anaemia pathway: New players and new functions

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 337-349

  Ceccaldi, Raphael ^a   Sarangi, Prabha ^a   D'Andrea, Alan D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; FANCONI ANEMIA PROTEIN;

CYTOKINESIS; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; EXCISION REPAIR; FANCONI ANEMIA; GENOME; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURGERY; ANIMAL; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; FANCONI ANEMIA; FANCONI ANEMIA COMPLEMENTATION GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS;

EID: 84965056821     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm.2016.48     Document Type: Review

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