Nucleotide Excision Repair of DNA: The Very Early History

Overview

Journal DNA Repair (Amst)

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Biochemistry
Molecular Biology

Date 2011 May 24

PMID 21600859

Citations 5

Authors

Errol C Friedberg

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Abstract

This article, taken largely from the book Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms, summarizes the very early history of the discovery of nucleotide excision repair.

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