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Description: A chart of common DNA damaging agents, examples of lesions they cause in DNA, and pathways used to repair these lesions. Also shown are many of the genes in these pathways, an indication of which genes are epigenetically regulated to have reduced (or increased) expression in various cancers. It also shows genes in the error prone microhomology-mediated end joining pathway with increased expression in various cancers.
Title: DNA damage, repair, alteration of repair in cancer
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Author: Bernstein0275
Usage Terms: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0
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