Mending the Break: Two DNA Double-Strand Break Repair Machines in Eukaryotes

Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

Volumn 74, Issue , 2003, Pages 159-201

  Krejci, Lumir ^a   Chen, Ling ^a   Komen, Stephen Van ^a   Sung, Patrick ^a   Tomkinson, Alan ^a  

^a University of Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

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EID: 0242272059     PISSN: 00796603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6603(03)01013-4     Document Type: Article

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