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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mutat Res. 2006 Dec 8;616(1-2):46–59. doi: 10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2006.11.021

Figure 4. Single Strand Annealing (SSA).

Figure 4

In the SSA model, the 5' ends surrounding the breakage region are “chewed back” or resected, exposing adjacent homology. The homologous strands anneal with each other and are ligated, resulted in the deletion of intervening sequence.