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ATRX and DAXX: Mechanisms and Mutations.
Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Dyer Michael A, Qadeer Zulekha A, Valle-Garcia David, Bernstein Emily
Abstract excerpt
Recent genome sequencing efforts in a variety of cancers have revealed mutations and/or structural alterations in ATRX and DAXX, which together encode a complex that deposits histone variant H3.3 into repetitive heterochromatin. These regions include retrotransposons, pericentric heterochromatin, and telomeres, the latter of which show deregulation in ATRX/DAXX-mutant tumors. Interestingly, ATRX and DAXX...
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