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A novel mutation in the XPA gene results in two truncated protein variants and leads to a severe XP/neurological symptoms phenotype.
Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV - 1 Dec 2015
Lehmann J, Schubert S, Schäfer A, Laspe P, Haenssle H A, Ohlenbusch A, Gratchev A, Emmert S
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BACKGROUND: The nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway repairs UV-induced DNA lesions in an accurate fashion and prevents UV-irradiated areas of the skin from tumour formation. The XPA protein plays a major role in DNA damage demarcation as well as stabilization of other NER factors and was found to be defective in xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) complementation group A patients. OBJECTIVE: Characterization of four...
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