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  3. Mutation of the RAD51C gene in a Fanconi anemia-like disorder

Mutation of the RAD51C gene in a Fanconi anemia-like disorder

  • Nat Genet. 2010 May;42(5):406-9. doi: 10.1038/ng.570.
Fiona Vaz 1,  Helmut Hanenberg,  Beatrice Schuster,  Karen Barker,  Constanze Wiek,  Verena Erven,  Kornelia Neveling,  Daniela Endt,  Ian Kesterton,  Flavia Autore,  Franca Fraternali,  Marcel Freund,  Linda Hartmann,  David Grimwade,  Roland G Roberts,  Heiner Schaal,  Shehla Mohammed,  Nazneen Rahman,  Detlev Schindler,  Christopher G Mathew
Affiliations

Affiliation

  • 1 Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, King's College London School of Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London, UK.
PMID: 20400963 DOI: 10.1038/ng.570
Abstract

Fanconi anemia (FA) is a rare chromosomal-instability disorder associated with a variety of developmental abnormalities, bone marrow failure and predisposition to leukemia and other cancers. We have identified a homozygous missense mutation in the RAD51C gene in a consanguineous family with multiple severe congenital abnormalities characteristic of FA. RAD51C is a member of the RAD51-like gene family involved in homologous recombination-mediated DNA repair. The mutation results in loss of RAD51 focus formation in response to DNA damage and in increased cellular sensitivity to the DNA interstrand cross-linking agent mitomycin C and the topoisomerase-1 inhibitor camptothecin. Thus, biallelic germline mutations in a RAD51 paralog are associated with an FA-like syndrome.

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