Table 1. Overview of DNA repair pathways.

Repair system	Type of lesions	Accuracy
Base Excision Repair (BER)	Oxidative lesions	error free
Nucleotide Excision Repair (NER)	Helix-distorting lesions	error free
Translesion synthesis	Various lesions	error prone
Miss Match Repair (MMR)	Replication errors	error free
Single Stand Break Repair (SSBR)	Single strand breaks	error free
Homologous Recombination (HR)	Double-strand breaks	mostly error free
Non-Homologous End Joining (NHEJ)	Double-strand breaks	mostly error prone
DNA Interstrand Crosslink Repair Pathway	Interstrand crosslinks	largely error free