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Fanconi anaemia is an autosomal recessive disorder in which patients develop bone marrow failure and aplastic anaemia but this can occur at widely differing ages from the first year to age 12 years or more. This means that often the diagnosis is made before the onset of any haematological abnormality is apparent. Many, but not all, FA patients have quite severe congenital abnormalities and so the unusual sensitivity of FA peripheral blood lymphocytes to DNA crosslinking agents has been an important part of the diagnosis in FA. FA patients, however, may have neither bone marrow failure nor congenital abnormalities, when a diagnosis of FA is suspected and this has led to occasional confusion with Nijmegen Breakage syndrome where there is also unusual sensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents. In contrast cells from FA patients, with some rare exceptions, do not show an increased sensitivity to ionising radiation. The absence of particular FANC proteins can result in a more severe phenotype; for example the predisposition to both the presence of congenital abnormalities with early diagnosis in patients with mutations and very early onset of myeloid or lymphoid leukaemia as well as carcinomas in the case of patients with mutations. The pathogenesis of bone marrow failure and congenital abnormalities is not understood in the context of the loss of particular FANC proteins. In addition, the number of genes identified is fairly large and their exact roles in the FA pathways have not yet been fully worked out. Although the cellular targets for these different FA proteins and the FA pathway have not yet been elucidated there appears to be a role for the FA proteins in homology directed repair of DNA double strand breaks.

Fanconi anaemia is an autosomal recessive disorder in which patients develop bone marrow failure and aplastic anaemia but this can occur at widely differing ages from the first year to age 12 years or more. This means that often the diagnosis is made before the onset of any haematological abnormality is apparent. Many, but not all, FA patients have quite severe congenital abnormalities and so the unusual sensitivity of FA peripheral blood lymphocytes to DNA crosslinking agents has been an important part of the diagnosis in FA. FA patients, however, may have neither bone marrow failure nor congenital abnormalities, when a diagnosis of FA is suspected and this has led to occasional confusion with Nijmegen Breakage syndrome where there is also unusual sensitivity to DNA crosslinking agents. In contrast cells from FA patients, with some rare exceptions, do not show an increased sensitivity to ionising radiation. The absence of particular FANC proteins can result in a more severe phenotype; for example the predisposition to both the presence of congenital abnormalities with early diagnosis in patients with mutations and very early onset of myeloid or lymphoid leukaemia as well as carcinomas in the case of patients with mutations. The pathogenesis of bone marrow failure and congenital abnormalities is not understood in the context of the loss of particular FANC proteins. In addition, the number of genes identified is fairly large and their exact roles in the FA pathways have not yet been fully worked out. Although the cellular targets for these different FA proteins and the FA pathway have not yet been elucidated there appears to be a role for the FA proteins in homology directed repair of DNA double strand breaks.

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Fanconi anaemia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by progressive pancytopaenia and predisposition to malignancy, often accompanied by congenital malformations. The cellular phenotype of FA includes increased chromosomal instability and accumulation in the G2 phase of the cell cycle, both of which are exacerbated by the hallmark sensitivity of FA cells to DNA crosslinking agents such as mitomycin C (MMC) and diepoxybutane (DEB). FA is genetically heterogeneous, consisting of at least eleven complementation groups, the genes for eight of which have been cloned. was the first gene causal for FA to be identified, and consequently has been the most intensively studied. Loss of function studies have demonstrated an important role for FANCC in the proliferation of germ cells and haematopoietic stem cells (HPCs). Together with the protein products of at least five other FA genes, FANCC participates in the formation of a nuclear protein complex, the formation of which is required for monoubiquitination of the FANCD2 protein. This cooperative action of the FA proteins fits well with the indistinguishable clinical presentation and universal cellular crosslinker sensitivity of the complementation groups. However, despite its ability to participate in a nuclear protein complex and possible involvement in nuclear activities such as DNA repair and transcriptional regulation, FANCC is unique among the FA proteins in having a predominandy cytoplasmic cellular localization. Investigation of possible cytoplasmic roles for FANCC have revealed it to be a multifunctional protein involved in the suppression of cell death in response to a wide range of stimuli including DNA-crosslinking agents, factor withdrawl, dsRNA, stimulatory cytokines and Fas ligation, as well as a having a possibly interrelated role in maintaining of the redox state of the cell.

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The cellular and clinical phenotypes of Fanconi Anaemia (FA) have been associated with a set of redox abnormalities using evidence arising from in vitro, in vivo and molecular studies. The available information points to: (i) the influence of oxygen and antioxidants in chromosomal instability and in apoptosis; (ii) the redox-related toxicity mechanisms of agents (commonly termed “crosslinkers”) triggering excess sensitivity of FA cells; (iii) a set of abnormalities in redox biomarkers detected in body fluids and blood cells from FA patients; (iv) a number of clinical features related to a chronic pro-oxidant state, and (v) the involvement of redox pathways in the functions and structures of at least three proteins encoded by FA genes (FANCA, FANCC and FANCG). Oxidative stress may thus be envisaged as an important phenomenon in FA accounting for most of the findings observed in FA’s clinical phenotype. This information ought to prompt clinical studies that might unveil new avenues in FA research, such as the prospect of controlled chemoprevention trials aimed at counteracting the FA-associated pro-oxidant state and ameliorating FA’s clinical course.

For now, the treatment of choice for FA patients remains BMT with a HLA-identical sibling donor. Improved preconditioning regimen and immunosuppresive therapy post-transplant has increased the success rate of BMT for FA patients, although secondary tumors post-transplant remains a major concern. Results of unrelated matched transplants and family related mismatched transplants have improved over the past few years with the use of T-cell depletion and fludarabine therapy. However, the success rate is still low and other forms of therapy such as gene transfer, or eventually protein transfer, may be a possible alternative.