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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 345805, 16 pages
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Review Article

Processing of Damaged DNA Ends for Double-Strand Break Repair in Mammalian Cells

Lawrence F. Povirk

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Virginia Commonwealth University, P.O. Box 980035, Richmond, VA 23298, USA

Received 27 September 2012; Accepted 7 November 2012

Academic Editors: A. Goldar and M. Greenwood

Copyright © 2012 Lawrence F. Povirk. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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