Volume 26, No 4, Apr 2016

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
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Volume 26 Issue 4, April 2016: 397-398

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Keeping homologous recombination in check

Kasper Fugger¹ and Stephen C West¹

¹The Francis Crick Institute, Clare Hall Laboratories, South Mimms EN6 3LD, UK Correspondence: Stephen C West,(stephen.west@crick.ac.uk)

Pathway choice is a critical event in the repair of DNA double-strand breaks. In a recent paper published in Nature, Orthwein et al. define a mechanism by which homologous recombination is controlled in G1 cells to favor non-homologous end joining.

10.1038/cr.2016.25

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