FANCA and Fanconi anemia: Protein members of different but integrated DNA repair pathways, such as Fanconi Anemia (FA), Mismatch Repair (MMR) or Nucleotide-Excision Repair (NER) and, more downstream, the Homology Repair (HR) pathways sense and resolve these alterations of the DNA structure and when repair fails a result may be apoptosis or cell growth inhibition.