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The genetics of FANCC and FANCG in familial pancreatic cancer.
Cancer biology & therapy - 1 Feb 2004
Rogers Carmelle D, van der Heijden Michiel S, Brune Kieran, Yeo Charles J, Hruban Ralph H, Kern Scott E, Goggins Michael
Abstract excerpt
Patients with Fanconi anemia (FA) display a wide variety of defects including bone marrow failure and a high risk of developing cancer. Multiple Fanconi genes exist whose proteins form a complex that along with BRCA1 is important for the translocalization of FANCD2 to nuclear foci. With BRCA2 and RAD51, this complex is thought to have a role in the repair of DNA double strand breaks. The genetic basis of another...
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