Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Parallel genome-wide screens identify synthetic viable interactions between the BLM helicase complex and Fanconi anemia

  • Martin Moder,
  • Georgia Velimezi,
  • Michel Owusu,
  • Abdelghani Mazouzi,
  • Marc Wiedner,
  • Joana Ferreira da Silva,
  • Lydia Robinson-Garcia,
  • Fiorella Schischlik,
  • Rastislav Slavkovsky,
  • Robert Kralovics,
  • Michael Schuster,
  • Christoph Bock,
  • Trey Ideker,
  • Stephen P. Jackson,
  • Jörg Menche,
  • Joanna I. Loizou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01439-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Fanconi anemia is a complex disease affecting multiple DNA repair proteins that resolve DNA crosslinks which can block vital processes. Here the authors use parallel genome-wide screens that identify the BLM helicase complex as a suppressor of Fanconi anemia phenotypes.