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Published in final edited form as: DNA Repair (Amst). 2008 May 16;7(7):1098–1109. doi: 10.1016/j.dnarep.2008.03.011

Table 1.

Comparison of the DNA repair pathways identified so far in the nucleus and mitochondria of mammalian cells.

Mammalian DNA Repair Pathways
PATHWAY	SUBPATHWAYS	Nuclear	Mito
BER/SSBR	Long patch	Y	N
BER/SSBR	Short patch	Y	Y

NER	General genome	Y	N
	Gene-specific	Y	N
	Transcription associated	Y	N

MMR		Y	Y?

Recombination	HR	Y	?
Recombination	NHEJ	Y	Y

Direct damage reversal		Y	Y