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Insights into the DNA damage response and tumor drug resistance

Xiaolu Ma, Zina Cheng and Caixia Guo
Cancer Biology & Medicine March 2025, 20250020; DOI: https://doi.org/10.20892/j.issn.2095-3941.2025.0020
Xiaolu Ma
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Artificial Intelligence, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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Zina Cheng
1Institute of Biomedical Engineering, College of Artificial Intelligence, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China
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Caixia Guo
2China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China
3Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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