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Multiple mechanisms of telomere maintenance exist in liposarcomas.
Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 1 Aug 2005
Johnson Jay E, Varkonyi Robert J, Schwalm Jaclyn, Cragle Ryan, Klein-Szanto Andres, Patchefsky Arthur, Cukierman Edna, von Mehren Margaret, Broccoli Dominique
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PURPOSE: Telomeres are specialized nucleoprotein complexes that protect and confer stability upon chromosome ends. Loss of telomere function as a consequence of proliferation-associated sequence attrition results in genome instability, which may facilitate carcinogenesis by generating growth-promoting mutations. However, unlimited cellular proliferation requires the maintenance of telomeric DNA; thus, the...
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