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A nervous predisposition to unrepaired DNA double strand breaks.
DNA repair - 1 Aug 2013
Reynolds John J, Stewart Grant S
Abstract excerpt
Ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) has for a long time stood apart from most other human neurodegenerative syndromes by the characteristic failure of cells derived from these patients to properly repair DNA damage-induced by ionizing radiation. The discovery of mutations in the ATM gene as being the underlying cause for A-T and the demonstration that the ATM protein functions as a DNA damage-responsive kinase has...
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