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Radiation risks are increased by fourfold for the 1% to 2% of women who may be unknowing and silent carriers of the A-T (ataxia-telangiectasia) gene, and thus highly sensitive to the carcinogenic effects of radiation.
Samuel S. Epstein: Safe Breast Self Exam by Young Women vs. Dangers of Mammography 2009
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Dr. Cox is a world-renowned expert on genetic diseases associated with defects in chromosome 21, including Down Syndrome and ataxia-telangiectasia.
Fact Sheet On Cloning Prohibition Act ITY National Archives 1997
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It interacts with CRY2 and with the cell cycle checkpoint protein CHK1 and the ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) - Rad3-related kinase-ATR-interacting protein
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Siddheshwar J. Utge et al. 2010
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During a festive Sabbath dinner, Noa's doctor called to say that Levy's daughter had a rare, fatal degenerative disorder called ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T).
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D (2003) 53BP1 and NFBD1/MDC1-Nbs1 function in parallel interacting pathways activating ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) in response to DNA damage.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Marcel A. T. M. van Vugt et al. 2010
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The work provides new insights into mechanisms of how the body fixes environmentally induced DNA damage and into the deadly neurological disease ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T), said senior author Christopher Bakkenist, assistant professor of radiation oncology, pharmacology and chemical biology at UPCI and the School of Medicine.
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Beamish H, Williams R, Chen P, Lavin M. F (1996) Defect in multiple cell cycle checkpoints in ataxia-telangiectasia postirradiation.
PLoS Biology: New Articles Marcel A. T. M. van Vugt et al. 2010
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"It's as if we temporarily turned normal cells into cells indistinguishable from those of children with ataxia-telangiectasia."
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Children lacking the gene for ATM develop ataxia-telangiectasia, a disease that causes several debilitating problems, such as neurodegeneration, cancer and sensitivity to irradiation that leads to irreparable, double-stranded DNA breaks.
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"They have two kids who are diagnosed with ataxia-telangiectasia, which has a long name and an even worse disease," Kemper said.
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