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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can lead to numerous types of DNA damage (a-c), a single-stranded (ss) DNA nick, as in d. A subset of nicks might continue to be present during DNA synthesis, they might be converted to double-stranded (ds) DNA breaks (e). ROS attack can also lead directly to dsDNA breaks (c)
