Break-induced replication and genome stability

Biomolecules

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 483-504

  Sakofsky, Cynthia J ^a   Ayyar, Sandeep ^a   Malkova, Anna ^a  

^a Biology SL332   (United States)

Author keywords

Break induced replication (BIR); DNA repair; Double strand break (DSB); Recombination

Indexed keywords

DNAB HELICASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 2; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 7; RAD51 PROTEIN; RAD52 PROTEIN; REPLICATION LICENSING FACTOR CDT1;

BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; REVIEW; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 85016350482     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2218273X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/biom2040483     Document Type: Review

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