"Cyclins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A large family of regulatory proteins that function as accessory subunits to a variety of CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASES. They generally function as ENZYME ACTIVATORS that drive the CELL CYCLE through transitions between phases. A subset of cyclins may also function as transcriptional regulators.
| Descriptor ID |
D016213
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.360.262 D12.776.167.218 D12.776.476.262
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| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Cyclins" by people in Profiles.
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Evaluation of genetic risk loci for intracranial aneurysms in sporadic arteriovenous malformations of the brain. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2015 May; 86(5):524-9.
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The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Sep 01; 22(17):3583-96.
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Variants of DNA repair genes and the risk of biliary tract cancers and stones: a population-based study in China. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug; 17(8):2123-7.