Table 2.
Major Types of DNA Repair
| Type of DNA Repair |
|---|
| Excision repair |
| Base excision repair (BER) |
| Nucleotide excision repair (NER) |
| Mismatch repair (MMR) |
| Double-strand break repair |
| Homologous recombination (HR) |
| Nonhomologous DNA end joining (NHEJ) |
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