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ArticleBlood2011

Origin, functional role, and clinical impact of Fanconi anemia FANCA mutations.

Maria Castella, Roser Pujol, Elsa Callén, Juan P Trujillo, José A Casado, Hans Gille, Francis P Lach, Arleen D Auerbach, Detlev Schindler, Javier Benítez and 22 more

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Article in Blood, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
3.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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75 citing papers in PubMed, 136 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

32 authors at 20 institutions in 5 countries.

Maria CastellaGenome Instability and DNA Repair Group, Department of Genetics and Microbiology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra s/n, Barcelona, Spain.
Roser Pujol
Elsa Callén
Juan P Trujillo
José A Casado
Hans Gille
Francis P Lach
Arleen D Auerbach
Detlev Schindler
Javier Benítez
Beatriz Porto
Teresa Ferro
Arturo Muñoz
Julián Sevilla
Luis Madero
Elena Cela
Cristina Beléndez
Cristina Díaz de Heredia
Teresa Olivé
José Sánchez de Toledo
Isabel Badell
Montserrat Torrent
Jesús Estella
Angeles Dasí
Antonia Rodríguez-Villa
Pedro Gómez
José Barbot
María Tapia
Antonio Molinés
Angela Figuera
Juan A Bueren
Jordi Surrallés
Hospital Materno-Infantil · ESUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona · ESHospital de Sant Pau · ESHospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón · ESHospital Infantil Universitario Niño Jesús · ESHospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal · ESHospital Universitario Reina Sofía · ESRockefeller University · USAmsterdam UMC Location VUmc · NLCentre for Biomedical Network Research on Rare Diseases · ESCentro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas · ESFundación Botín · ESHospital Maria Pia · PTHospital Sant Joan de Déu Barcelona · ESHospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe · ESHospital Universitario de La Princesa · ESInstituto de Salud Carlos III · ESSpanish National Cancer Research Centre · ESUniversidade do Porto · PTUniversity of Würzburg · DE

Funding

TRANSFORMING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AND EDUCATION TO BENEFIT HUMAN HEALTHUL1RR024143 · NCRR · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI COLLER, BARRY · 2006 to 2011
$49.1M
NCRR NIH HHS 5UL1RR024143-04NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024143
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fanconi anemia is characterized by congenital abnormalities, bone marrow failure, and cancer predisposition. To investigate the origin, functional role, and clinical impact of FANCA mutations, we determined a FANCA mutational spectrum with 130 pathogenic alleles. Some of these mutations were further characterized for their distribution in populations, mode of emergence, or functional consequences at cellular and clinical level. The world most frequent FANCA mutation is not the result of a mutational "hot-spot" but results from worldwide dissemination of an ancestral Indo-European mutation. We provide molecular evidence that total absence of FANCA in humans does not reduce embryonic viability, as the observed frequency of mutation carriers in the Gypsy population equals the expected by Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. We also prove that long distance Alu-Alu recombination can cause Fanconi anemia by originating large interstitial deletions involving FANCA and 2 adjacent genes. Finally, we show that all missense mutations studied lead to an altered FANCA protein that is unable to relocate to the nucleus and activate the FA/BRCA pathway. This may explain the observed lack of correlation between type of FANCA mutation and cellular phenotype or clinical severity in terms of age of onset of hematologic disease or number of malformations.

Indexed as

MutationAdolescentAge of OnsetBase SequenceCell Culture TechniquesCells, CulturedChildChild, PreschoolChromosome AberrationsComparative Genomic HybridizationDNA Mutational AnalysisFanconi AnemiaFanconi Anemia Complementation Group A ProteinGene FrequencyHumansInfantFANCA protein, humanFanconi Anemia Complementation Group A Protein

Identifiers

PMID21273304
PMCPMC3083295
OpenAlexW2029472708

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