Karyotypic determinants of chromosome instability in aneuploid budding yeast.

Recent studies in cancer cells and budding yeast demonstrated that aneuploidy, the state of having abnormal chromosome numbers, correlates with elevated chromosome instability (CIN), i.e. the propensity of gaining and losing chromosomes at a high frequency. Here we have investigated ploidy- and chro...

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Main Authors: Jin Zhu, Norman Pavelka, William D Bradford, Giulia Rancati, Rong Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3355078?pdf=render