Ataxia-Telangiectasia

Possible Cancer Gene Studied

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 3rd, 1995

Isolation of a gene mutation that causes a rare and devastating childhood disease may help science learn the fundamental processes that cause normal cells to turn into cancers, experts say.

Scientists announced at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) that a mutated gene responsible for an inherited killer disease called ataxia-telangiectasia (AT), plays a key role in the internal machinery of all cells and may hold the key to basic puzzles about cancer.

A study published in the June 23, 1995, issue of the journal Science said the AT gene has been isolated through a collaboration of 30 international researchers. Experts immediately hailed the...

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