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. 2008 Nov;10(11):1909–1921. doi: 10.1089/ars.2008.2129

FIG. 3.

FIG. 3.

A model of FA disease progression. FA HSC/P cells are highly susceptible to stress-induced apoptosis, which may lead to HSC depletion and bone marrow failure. The combination of apoptosis and genomic instability provides recrudescent selective sweeps that purge hematopoietic tissues of all but the selected or adapted neoplastic stem cells