Notably, the repair defect of smc5 DT40 cells toward cisplatin was genetically epistatic with mutations in the Fanconi anemia (FA) components, FANCC and FANCM, and with mutations in the FA‐like pathway defined by the DNA damage checkpoint clamp loader, RAD17, and the DDX11 helicase 19, 20. Here, FANCM is linked to Friedreich ataxia.