Mechanism and regulation of human non-homologous DNA end-joining

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 712-720

  Lieber, Michael R ^a   Ma, Yunmei ^a   Pannicke, Ulrich ^b   Schwarz, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

AGING; CANCER; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE; DNA BINDING; DNA REPAIR; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IONIZING RADIATION; LYMPHOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DNA DAMAGE; DNA REPAIR; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS;

EID: 0042839614     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1202     Document Type: Review

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