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Impact of DNA mismatch repair system alterations on human fertility and related treatments.
Journal of Zhejiang University. Science. B - 1 Jan 2016
Hu Min-hao, Liu Shu-yuan, Wang Ning, Wu Yan, Jin Fan
Abstract excerpt
DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is one of the biological pathways, which plays a critical role in DNA homeostasis, primarily by repairing base-pair mismatches and insertion/deletion loops that occur during DNA replication. MMR also takes part in other metabolic pathways and regulates cell cycle arrest. Defects in MMR are associated with genomic instability, predisposition to certain types of cancers and resistance to...
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