Sensing and Responding to DNA Damage |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, March 05, 2003, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | DNA Repair |
| Description: | The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Cancer occurs by the accumulation of mutations in growth-controlling genes. Conditions under which increased frequencies of mutations occur often lead to cancer, and there are several examples of human diseases that cause higher mutation rates and result in a predisposition to cancer. Enhanced mutation frequencies can result from environmental factors, such as increased exposure to DNA-damaging agents, or genetic factors that decrease the efficiency of normal DNA repair processes. For more information, visit Stephen Elledge |
| Author: | Stephen J. Elledge, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine |
| Runtime: | 01:02:38 |
| Rights: | This is a work of the United States Government. No copyright exists on this material. It may be disseminated freely. |
| CIT File ID: | 10562 |
| CIT Live ID: | 1885 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?10562 |