Fanconi's anemia: what have we learned from the genes so far?

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Fanconi's anemia (FA) is a rare genetic disorder affecting children at an early age; patients suffer from progressive bone marrow failure and, in many cases, from congenital malformations. As cells from FA patients have an increased sensitivity to DNA-crosslinking agents, FA has been included among the group of DNA repair disorders. However, identification of a specific DNA repair defect in FA has not been firmly...

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