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Hypermethylation of the FANCC and FANCL promoter regions in sporadic acute leukaemia.
1 Jan 2008
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Inactivation of the FA-BRCA pathway results in chromosomal instability. Fanconi anaemia (FA) patients have an inherited defect in this pathway and are strongly predisposed to the development of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Studies in sporadic cancers have shown promoter methylation of the FANCF gene in a significant proportion of various solid tumours. However, only a single leukaemic case with...
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