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    Differences in peripheral neuropathy in xeroderma pigmentosum complementation groups A and D as evaluated by nerve conduction studies

    Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder with defective DNA nucleotide excision repair and associated with a high frequency of skin cancer. Approximately 25% of patients develo...

    Tanya J. Lehky, Paul Sackstein, Deborah Tamura, Martha Quezado, Tianxia Wu in BMC Neurology (2021)

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    Management of Xeroderma Pigmentosum

    Xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) is a rare, autosomal recessive inherited disease of DNA repair with a high incidence of sunlight-induced cancer of the skin and eye. Approximately half of the patients have marked bu...

    Deborah Tamura, Ryusuke Ono, John J. DiGiovanna, Kenneth H. Kraemer in DNA Repair Disorders (2019)

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    The influence of DNA repair on neurological degeneration, cachexia, skin cancer and internal neoplasms: autopsy report of four xeroderma pigmentosum patients (XP-A, XP-C and XP-D)

    To investigate the association of DNA nucleotide excision repair (NER) defects with neurological degeneration, cachexia and cancer, we performed autopsies on 4 adult xeroderma pigmentosum (XP) patients with di...

    **-** Lai, Yen-Chun Liu, Meghna Alimchandani in Acta Neuropathologica Communications (2013)