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. 2002 Oct;162(2):977–985. doi: 10.1093/genetics/162.2.977

Incorporation of large heterologies into heteroduplex DNA during double-strand-break repair in mouse cells.

Steven J Raynard 1, Mark D Baker 1
PMCID: PMC1462280  PMID: 12399405

Abstract

In this study, the formation and repair of large (>1 kb) insertion/deletion (I/D) heterologies during double-strand-break repair (DSBR) was investigated using a gene-targeting assay that permits efficient recovery of sequence insertion events at the haploid chromosomal immunoglobulin (Ig) mu-locus in mouse hybridoma cells. The results revealed that (i) large I/D heterologies were generated on one or both sides of the DSB and, in some cases, formed symmetrically in both homology regions; (ii) large I/D heterologies did not negatively affect the gene targeting frequency; and (iii) prior to DNA replication, the large I/D heterologies were rectified.

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