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Positional cloning of the Fanconi anaemia group A gene.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 1996
Abstract excerpt
Fanconi anaemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disorder associated with progressive bone-marrow failure, a variety of congenital abnormalities, and predisposition to acute myeloid leukaemia. Cells from FA patients show increased sensitivity to bifunctional DNA crosslinking agents such as diepoxybutane and mitomycin C, with characteristic chromosome breakage. FA is genetically heterogeneous, at least five...
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