Response to the Letter of Bodgi and Foray: On the coherence between mathematical models of DSB repair and physiological reality

Mutation Research - Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis

Volumn 761, Issue , 2014, Pages 50-52

  Taleei, Reza ^a,b   Nikjoo, Hooshang ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biochemical model; Complex DSB; DSB repair; Empirical model; Mechanistic model; Phenomenological model

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MODEL; COMPLEX DSB; DSB REPAIR; EMPIRICAL MODEL; MECHANISTIC MODEL; PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; DNA BREAKS, DOUBLE-STRANDED; DNA END-JOINING REPAIR; G1 PHASE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; RECOMBINATIONAL DNA REPAIR; S PHASE;

EID: 84894445296     PISSN: 13835718     EISSN: 18793592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mrgentox.2014.01.001     Document Type: Letter

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