DNA topoisomerases participate in fragility of the oncogene RET.

Fragile site breakage was previously shown to result in rearrangement of the RET oncogene, resembling the rearrangements found in thyroid cancer. Common fragile sites are specific regions of the genome with a high susceptibility to DNA breakage under conditions that partially inhibit DNA replication...

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Main Authors: Laura W Dillon, Levi C T Pierce, Christine E Lehman, Yuri E Nikiforov, Yuh-Hwa Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3770543?pdf=render