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Humanized Drosophila Model of the Meier-Gorlin Syndrome Reveals Conserved and Divergent Features of the Orc6 Protein.
Genetics - 1 Dec 2020
Balasov Maxim, Akhmetova Katarina, Chesnokov Igor
Abstract excerpt
Meier-Gorlin syndrome (MGS) is a rare, autosomal recessive disorder characterized by microtia, primordial dwarfism, small ears, and skeletal abnormalities. Patients with MGS often carry mutations in genes encoding the subunits of the Origin Recognition Complex (ORC), components of the prereplicative complex and replication machinery. Orc6 is an important component of ORC and has functions in both DNA replication...
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