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Primary immunodeficiency syndromes.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2010
Slatter Mary A, Gennery Andrew R
Abstract excerpt
Several DNA repair pathways have evolved to recognise and repair DNA damaged by exogenous and endogenous agents, in order to maintain genomic integrity. Defects in these pathways can lead to replication errors, loss or rearrangement ofgenomic material, mutation or cancer and eventual death. The creation of many diverse lymphocyte receptors to identify potential pathogens has evolved by breaking and randomly...
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