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Transcriptional profiles of unirradiated or UV-irradiated human cells expressing either the cancer-prone XPB/CS allele or the noncancer-prone XPB/TTD allele.
Oncogene - 17 Feb 2005
da Costa Renata Maria Augusto, Riou Lydia, Paquola Apuã, Menck Carlos Frederico Martins, Sarasin Alain
Abstract excerpt
Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) and trichothiodystrophy (TTD) syndromes are characterized by deficiency in nucleotide excision repair pathway, but with distinguished clinical manifestations. While XP patients exhibit a high frequency of skin cancer, TTD patients are not cancer prone. The relation between lack of DNA repair and their clinical manifestations was investigated through analysis of the transcriptional...
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