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Fanconi anemia deficiency stimulates HPV-associated hyperplastic growth in organotypic epithelial raft culture.
Oncogene - 5 Feb 2009
Hoskins E E, Morris T A, Higginbotham J M, Spardy N, Cha E, Kelly P, Williams D A, Wikenheiser-Brokamp K A, Duensing S, Wells S I
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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a recessive genome instability syndrome characterized by heightened cellular sensitivity to DNA damage, aplastic anemia and cancer susceptibility. Leukemias and squamous cell carcinomas (SCCs) are the most predominant FA-associated cancers, with the latter exhibiting markedly early disease onset and aggressiveness. Although studies of hematopoietic cells derived from FA patients have...
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