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"In human cells, the predominant pathway to repair double-strand breaks is …, in which the broken ends are simply rejoined with the concomitant loss of a few nucleotides. This leaves scars at the breakage sites. This pathway can potentially create chromosome translocations."

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In nonhomologous end joining, the broken ends are simply brought together and rejoined by DNA ligation, often concomitant with the loss of nucleotides at the site of joining.

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