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Mouse model for the DNA repair/basal transcription disorder trichothiodystrophy reveals cancer predisposition.
Cancer research - 15 Jul 1999
de Boer J, van Steeg H, Berg R J, Garssen J, de Wit J, van Oostrum C T, Beems R B, van der Horst G T, van Kreijl C F, de Gruijl F R, Bootsma D, Hoeijmakers J H, Weeda G
Abstract excerpt
Patients with the nucleotide excision repair (NER) disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) are highly predisposed to develop sunlight-induced skin cancer, in remarkable contrast to photosensitive NER-deficient trichothiodystrophy (TTD) patients carrying mutations in the same XPD gene. XPD encodes a h...
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