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Most Fanconi anemia heterozygotes are not at increased cancer risk: A genome-first DiscovEHR cohort population study.
Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics - 1 Mar 2024
Deng Joseph, Altintas Burak, Haley Jeremy S, Kim Jung, Ramos Mark, Carey David J, Stewart Douglas R, McReynolds Lisa J
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PURPOSE: Fanconi anemia (FA) is a bone marrow failure and cancer predisposition syndrome caused primarily by biallelic pathogenic variants in 1 of 22 genes involved in DNA interstrand cross-link repair. An enduring question concerns cancer risk of those with a single pathogenic FA gene variant. To investigate all FA genes, this study utilized the DiscovEHR cohort of 170,503 individuals with exome sequencing and...
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