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Cohesinopathies of a feather flock together.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jan 2013
Skibbens Robert V, Colquhoun Jennifer M, Green Megan J, Molnar Cody A, Sin Danielle N, Sullivan Brian J, Tanzosh Eden E
Abstract excerpt
Roberts Syndrome (RBS) and Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS) are severe developmental maladies that present with nearly an identical suite of multi-spectrum birth defects. Not surprisingly, RBS and CdLS arise from mutations within a single pathway--here involving cohesion. Sister chromatid tethering reactions that comprise cohesion are required for high fidelity chromosome segregation, but cohesin tethers also...
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