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Nature Genetics 41, 866 - 868 (2009)
doi:10.1038/ng0809-866

Life can be stressful without ATR

Mark O'Driscoll1

  1. Mark O'Driscoll is in the Cancer Research UK Human DNA Damage Response Disorders Group, Genome Damage & Stability Centre, University of Sussex, UK.
    e-mail: m.o-driscoll@sussex.ac.uk


A new study reports the first mouse model for ATR-mutated Seckel syndrome. The mice show phenotypes recapitulating the human disorder and provide insights into how reduced ATR function affects normal embryonic development by increasing replicative stress, ultimately resulting in an accelerated aging phenotype postnatally.

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