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Genotyping of fanconi anemia patients by whole exome sequencing: advantages and challenges.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Knies Kerstin, Schuster Beatrice, Ameziane Najim, Rooimans Martin, Bettecken Thomas, de Winter Johan, Schindler Detlev
Abstract excerpt
Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare genomic instability syndrome. Disease-causing are biallelic mutations in any one of at least 15 genes encoding members of the FA/BRCA pathway of DNA-interstrand crosslink repair. Patients are diagnosed based upon phenotypical manifestations and the diagnosis of FA is confirmed by the hypersensitivity of cells to DNA interstrand crosslinking agents. Customary molecular diagnostics has...
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