TY - BOOK AU - Lindahl,T. ED - Imperial Cancer Research Fund (Great Britain) TI - Genetic instability in cancer T2 - Cancer surveys, SN - 0879694858 AV - RC268.4 .G4465 1996 PY - 1996/// CY - Plainview, NY PB - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press KW - Cancer KW - Genetic aspects KW - DNA repair KW - Chromosome abnormalities KW - Neoplasms KW - genetics KW - Chromosome Aberrations N1 - "Published for the Imperial Cancer Research Fund."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; -- DNA synthesis errors, mutators and cancer; -- DNA polymerase and the control of DNA damage induced mutagenesis in eukaryotes; -- Patterns of mutation in cancer cells; -- Mismatch repair and cancer; -- Genomic instability and tolerance to alkylating agents; -- The relationship of DNA methylation to cancer; -- Neoplastic transformation: the contrasting stability of human and mouse cells; -- Damage inducible mutagenesis: recent insights into the activities of the Umu family of mutagenesis proteins; -- The relevance of bacterial mutators to understanding human cancer; -- Mutation in resting cells: the role of endogenous DNA damage; -- TP53 tumour suppressor gene: clues to molecular carcinogenesi and cancer therapy; -- Telomere maintenance in tumour cells; -- Regulation of genomic instability in preneoplastic cells; -- Chromosome abnormalities in leukemia: the 11q23 paradigm; -- Clonal chromosome abnormalities in neoplastic cells: evidence of genetic instability?; -- DNA damage detection by DNA dependent protein kinase and related enzymes; -- Mammalian X ray sensitive mutants: a tool for the elucidation of the cellular response to ionizing radiation; -- Mechanism of V(D)J recombination; -- Transrearrangements as biomarkers for risk of lymphoid malignancy; -- Many mutations in cancers ER -