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ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers2019

Chromosome instability syndromes.

A Malcolm R Taylor, Cynthia Rothblum-Oviatt, Nathan A Ellis, Ian D Hickson, Stefan Meyer, Thomas O Crawford, Agata Smogorzewska, Barbara Pietrucha, Corry Weemaes, Grant S Stewart

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Review in Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

116 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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56 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

A Malcolm R TaylorInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. a.m.r.taylor@bham.ac.uk.
Cynthia Rothblum-OviattA-T Children's Project, Coconut Creek, FL, USA.
Nathan A EllisThe University of Arizona Cancer Center, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Ian D HicksonCenter for Chromosome Stability, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Stefan MeyerStem Cell and Leukaemia Proteomics Laboratory, and Paediatric and Adolescent Oncology, Institute of Cancer Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
Thomas O CrawfordDepartment of Neurology and Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Agata SmogorzewskaLaboratory of Genome Maintenance, Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA.
Barbara PietruchaDepartment of Immunology, The Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland.
Corry WeemaesDepartment of Pediatrics (Pediatric Immunology), Amalia Children's Hospital, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Grant S StewartInstitute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.

Funding

The role of nucleases in interstrand crosslink repairR01HL120922 · NHLBI · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI SMOGORZEWSKA, AGATA · 2014 to 2018
$2.1M
Functions of human RAD51 and its paralogs during DNA interstrand crosslink repairR01CA204127 · NCI · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI SMOGORZEWSKA, AGATA · 2017 to 2021
$2.0M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA204127NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL120922
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fanconi anaemia (FA), ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS) and Bloom syndrome (BS) are clinically distinct, chromosome instability (or breakage) disorders. Each disorder has its own pattern of chromosomal damage, with cells from these patients being hypersensitive to particular genotoxic drugs, indicating that the underlying defect in each case is likely to be different. In addition, each syndrome shows a predisposition to cancer. Study of the molecular and genetic basis of these disorders has revealed mechanisms of recognition and repair of DNA double-strand breaks, DNA interstrand crosslinks and DNA damage during DNA replication. Specialist clinics for each disorder have provided the concentration of expertise needed to tackle their characteristic clinical problems and improve outcomes. Although some treatments of the consequences of a disorder may be possible, for example, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in FA and NBS, future early intervention to prevent complications of disease will depend on a greater understanding of the roles of the affected DNA repair pathways in development. An important realization has been the predisposition to cancer in carriers of some of these gene mutations.

Indexed as

Ataxia TelangiectasiaBloom SyndromeDNA DamageDNA Repair-Deficiency DisordersFanconi AnemiaHumansNijmegen Breakage Syndrome

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PMID31537806
PMCPMC10617425

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