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ArticleThe Journal of clinical investigation2025

Expanding the landscape of nucleotide excision repair disorders: from discovery to therapy.

Arjan F Theil, Jan Hj Hoeijmakers

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Article in The Journal of clinical investigation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Arjan F TheilDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Jan Hj HoeijmakersDepartment of Molecular Genetics, Erasmus MC Cancer Institute, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DNA damage and repair are central to the onset of cancer, aging, and aging-related diseases. Rare genetic defects in the nucleotide excision repair pathway, such as those causing the cancer-prone disorder xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) or the progeroid condition Cockayne syndrome, highlight the dramatic consequences of unrepaired DNA lesions. In this issue of the JCI, two related papers from Ogi and coworkers - Fassihi et al. and Nakazawa et al. - describe a new XP clinical entity, XP-J, linked to a pathogenic variant in the p52 subunit of the transcription-repair complex TFIIH. The studies' characterization of XP-J and the p52ΔC variant opened unexpected possibilities to ameliorate the molecular defect in another subunit of TFIIH that causes a different, more severe repair syndrome: trichothiodystrophy. This commentary provides a broader historical, medical, and molecular context for the intricate genotype-phenotype relationship between compromised repair and its clinical consequences and discusses next steps for the advances reported.

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Cockayne SyndromeDNA RepairTranscription Factor TFIIHTrichothiodystrophy SyndromesXeroderma PigmentosumDNA DamageExcision RepairHumansTranscription Factor TFIIH

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PMID41243966
PMCPMC12618059

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