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Correction of the Bloom syndrome cellular phenotypes.
Somatic cell and molecular genetics - 1 Sept 1997
Giesler T, Baker K, Zhang B, McDaniel L D, Schultz R A
Abstract excerpt
Bloom syndrome (BLM) is a genetic disorder associated with predisposition to cancer and chromosome instability. However, the most readily recognized clinical feature of the syndrome is growth retardation. Introduction of the previously cloned BLM gene into BLM cells yielded correction of the chromosome instability and slow growth phenotypes. Additionally, asynchronous cultures of complemented clones revealed a...
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