El mapeo de la translocación expone el estilo de vida arriesgado de las células B

Rachel Patton McCord1, Job Dekker

  • 1Program in Systems Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01605-0103, USA.

Cell
|October 4, 2011
PubMed
Resumen

Las translocaciones cromosómicas recurrentes conducen al cáncer, pero su formación no está clara. Los estudios revelan que las ubicaciones específicas del ADN son propensas a los reordenamientos después de una sola ruptura de doble cadena, arrojando luz sobre la oncogénesis.

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