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Multiple genetic pathways involving the Caenorhabditis elegans Bloom's syndrome genes him-6, rad-51, and top-3 are needed to maintain genome stability in the germ line

Wicky, Chantal ; Alpi, Arno ; Passannante, Myriam ; Rose, Ann ; Gartner, Anton ; Müller, Fritz

In: Molecular and Cellular Biology, 2004, vol. 24, p. 5016-5027

Bloom's syndrome (BS) is an autosomal-recessive human disorder caused by mutations in the BS RecQ helicase and is associated with loss of genomic integrity and an increased incidence of cancer. We analyzed the mitotic and the meiotic roles of Caenorhabditis elegans him-6, which we show to encode the ortholog of the human BS gene. Mutations in him-6 result in an enhanced irradiation sensitivity, a...