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Trichothiodystrophy, a transcription syndrome.
Trends in genetics : TIG - 1 May 2001
Bergmann E, Egly J M
Abstract excerpt
Trichothiodystrophy (TTD) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by a hair dysplasia and associated with numerous symptoms affecting mainly organs derived from the neuroectoderm. About half of TTD patients exhibit photosensitivity because their nucleotide-excision repair pathway (NER) does not remove UV-induced DNA lesions efficiently. However, they do not present the skin cancer susceptibility expected from...
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