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Nbn heterozygosity renders mice susceptible to tumor formation and ionizing radiation-induced tumorigenesis.
Cancer research - 1 Nov 2003
Dumon-Jones Valérie, Frappart Pierre-Olivier, Tong Wei-Min, Sajithlal Giangadharan, Hulla Wolfgang, Schmid Gerald, Herceg Zdenko, Digweed Martin, Wang Zhao-Qi
Abstract excerpt
Nijmegen Breakage Syndrome (NBS) is a rare autosomal recessive disease characterized by microcephaly, growth retardation, immunodeficiency, chromosomal instability, and predisposition to cancer. Heterozygous NBS patients show increased chromosomal instability and are suspected to be at a high risk for cancer. To study the impact of NBS1 heterozygosity on malignancy susceptibility, we disrupted the murine...
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