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Hypersensitivity of primordial germ cells to compromised replication-associated DNA repair involves ATM-p53-p21 signaling.
PLoS genetics - 1 Jul 2014
Luo Yunhai, Hartford Suzanne A, Zeng Ruizhu, Southard Teresa L, Shima Naoko, Schimenti John C
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Genome maintenance in germ cells is critical for fertility and the stable propagation of species. While mechanisms of meiotic DNA repair and chromosome behavior are well-characterized, the same is not true for primordial germ cells (PGCs), which arise and propagate during very early stages of mammalian development. Fanconi anemia (FA), a genomic instability syndrome that includes hypogonadism and testicular...
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