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Repair Pathway Choices and Consequences at the Double-Strand Break.
Trends in cell biology - 1 Jan 2016
Ceccaldi Raphael, Rondinelli Beatrice, D'Andrea Alan D
Abstract excerpt
DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are cytotoxic lesions that threaten genomic integrity. Failure to repair a DSB has deleterious consequences, including genomic instability and cell death. Indeed, misrepair of DSBs can lead to inappropriate end-joining events, which commonly underlie oncogenic transformation due to chromosomal translocations. Typically, cells employ two main mechanisms to repair DSBs: homologous...
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