Many kinds of somatic mutations have no obvious effect on an organism, because genetically normal body cells are able to compensate for the mutated ... is added to the DNA strand during replication.

We know that if a DNA repair gene is mutated, cells become more sensitive ... L. et al. Double-strand breaks associated with repetitive DNA can reshape the genome. Proceedings of the Naitonal ...

Mitochondrial diseases, arising from mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), are a diverse group of disorders that lead to ...

Adenine on the template strand will always pair with thymine on the ... One such mechanism is base excision repair (BER), where the mutated adenine is recognized and removed by DNA glycosylases, ...