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The ataxia telangiectasia clastogenic factor is a low molecular weight peptide

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The clastogenic factor in the plasma of ataxia telangiectasia (AT) patients and in conditioned medium from AT skin fibroblast cultures is a peptide with a molecular weight in the range of 500 to 1000. No clastogenic activity could be demonstrated in extracts of cultured AT fibroblasts.

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  1. Department of Human Genetics, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Meira Shaham & Yechiel Becker

  2. Department of Molecular Virology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Meira Shaham & Yechiel Becker

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Shaham, M., Becker, Y. The ataxia telangiectasia clastogenic factor is a low molecular weight peptide. Hum Genet 58, 422–424 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00282828

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