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After bleomycin treatment, inhibition of DNA synthesis was low when compared with normal cells, but higher than observed in an AT reference strain. Moreover, cell cycle analysis, after drug exposure, showed a progressive reduction in the percentage of S phase cells, but the G1 arrest, found in normal cells, was not observed. On clinical evaluation our patient shares features with NBS subjects, but cytogenetic and cell biological data do not completely overlap with those reported in Nijmegen breakage syndrome. 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