| Literature DB >> 2303247 |
K Fukuchi1, K Tanaka, Y Kumahara, K Marumo, M B Pride, G M Martin, R J Monnat.
Abstract
The frequency of spontaneous 6-thioguanine (TG)-resistant peripheral blood lymphocytes in five unrelated Werner syndrome (WS) patients was determined using an autoradiographic labeling assay. The average frequency of TG-resistant lymphocytes was eightfold higher in WS patients than in sex- and age-matched normal control donors. This finding and previous identification of increased spontaneous chromosomal rearrangements and deletions in WS cells or cell lines suggest that WS is a human genomic instability or mutator syndrome.Entities:
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Year: 1990 PMID: 2303247 DOI: 10.1007/bf00200569
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Hum Genet ISSN: 0340-6717 Impact factor: 4.132