Variant of ataxia-telangiectasia with low-level radiosensitivity

1 July 1985

journal article
research article
Published by Springer Nature in Human Genetics

Vol. 70 (3) , 274-277
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00273456

Abstract

In the present study we examined cells from several patients clinically diagnosed as having ataxia-telangiectasia (AT), for the capacity of their cells to inhibit DNA synthesis following exposure to gamma irradiation, and for the rate of spontaneous or blcomycin-induced chromosomal aberrations. Cells from two patients showed normal inhibition of DNA synthesis and levels of induced chromosomal aberrations intermediate between normal and AT cells. These two patients had only minimal immunologic impairment. These findings appear to define one distinct subset of AT.

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