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Immunological disorders and DNA repair.
Mutation research - 30 Nov 2002
O'Driscoll Mark, Jeggo Penny
Abstract excerpt
Cellular DNA continuously incurs damage and a range of damage response mechanisms function to maintain genomic integrity in the face of this onslaught. During the development of the immune response, the cell utilises three defined processes, V(D)J recombination, class switch recombination and somatic hypermutation, to create genetic diversity in developing T and B cells. Curiously, the damage response mechanisms...
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