“…BRCA1/2 are known within our field as Fanconi anemia-like genes, whose function is essential in the bone marrow. [4][5][6] Other cancer syndromes arise from defects in nucleotide excision repair (NER), 7 including xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), which consists of 8 autosomal recessive forms (XP-A, XP-B, XP-C, XP-D, XP-E, XP-F, XP-G, and XP-V), each having a mutation in a component of the NER complex (XPA, ERCC3, XPC, ERCC2, DDB2, ERCC4, ERCC5, and POLH, respectively). People with XP have an extreme sensitivity to UV light, experiencing severe sunburns with minutes of exposure, dry skin (xeroderma), freckling (pigmentosum), hearing loss, poor coordination, loss of intellectual function, seizures, and development of squamous cell carcinomas and melanomas often as early as 10 years old in sun-exposed areas.…”