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A hypomorphic Artemis human disease allele causes aberrant chromosomal rearrangements and tumorigenesis.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Feb 2011
Jacobs Cheryl, Huang Ying, Masud Tehmina, Lu William, Westfield Gerwin, Giblin William, Sekiguchi JoAnn M
Abstract excerpt
The Artemis gene encodes a DNA nuclease that plays important roles in non-homologous end-joining (NHEJ), a major double-strand break (DSB) repair pathway in mammalian cells. NHEJ factors repair general DSBs as well as programmed breaks generated during the lymphoid-specific DNA rearrangement, V(D)J recombination, which is required for lymphocyte development. Mutations that inactivate Artemis cause a human severe...
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