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Gene responsible for anemia (type CDA-1) discovered

Rehovot, Israel -- December 16, 2002 -- A combined effort between scientists at Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has led to the discovery of a gene responsible for a type of anemia primarily found in a number of Bedouin families, called congenital dyserythropoietic anemia-1 (CDA-1). The findings, published in the December is...

University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill Scientists Find Breast Cancer Gene Required To Correct Certain GeneticDamage

... CHAPEL HILL - A tumor-suppressor gene involved in breast and ovarian...cancer susceptibility plays a central role in one of the body's most important...mechanisms for repairing DNA when that genetic material becomes damaged,...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have discovered. ... Using specially altered mouse embryo cells deficient in the gene BRCA1,...th...