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Elsevier, Experimental Hematology, 5(44), p. 352-357, 2016

DOI: 10.1016/j.exphem.2016.01.009

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Leukemia and chromosomal instability in aged Fancc-/- mice

Journal article published in 2016 by Donna Cerabona, Zejin Sun, Grzegorz Nalepa ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Fanconi anemia (FA) is an inherited disorder of genomic instability associated with high risk of myelodysplasia and AML. Young mice deficient in FA core complex genes do not naturally develop cancer, hampering preclinical studies on malignant hematopoiesis in FA. Here we show that aging Fancc-/- mice are prone to genomically unstable AML and other hematologic neoplasms. We demonstrate that aneuploidy precedes malignant transformation during Fancc-/- hematopoiesis. Our observations reveal that Fancc-/- mice develop hematopoietic chromosomal instability followed by leukemia in age-dependent manner, recapitulating the clinical phenotype of human Fanconi anemia and providing a proof of concept for future development of preclinical models of FA-associated leukemogenesis.