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Brca1 in immunoglobulin gene conversion and somatic hypermutation.
DNA repair - 1 Feb 2008
Longerich Simonne, Orelli Brian J, Martin Richard W, Bishop Douglas K, Storb Ursula
Abstract excerpt
Defects in Brca1 confer susceptibility to breast cancer and genomic instability indicative of aberrant repair of DNA breaks. Brca1 was previously implicated in the homologous recombination pathway via effects on the assembly of recombinase Rad51. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) deaminates C to U in B lymphocyte immunoglobulin (Ig) DNA to initiate programmed DNA breaks. Subsequent uracil-glycosylase...
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