DNA double-strand break repair: All's well that ends well

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue , 2006, Pages 363-383

  Wyman, Claire ^a   Kanaar, Roland ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA damage; Genome (in)stability; Homologous recombination; Nonhomologous DNA end joining; Stalled DNA replication

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA;

CELL FUNCTION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE DISRUPTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, SINGLE-STRANDED; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEOPROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845604556     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.40.110405.090451     Document Type: Review

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