Xeroderma pigmentosum is a rare, recessively inherited, sun-sensitive disorder with a defective DNA repair mechanism that is the best model currently available linking human cancer to exposure to a specific carcinogen. Laboratory and epidemiological studies of this disease are providing extensive insight into the etiology of cancer in the general population.
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