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Are breakdowns in our genetic repair system responsible for aging?
Other Resources

Books

General Interest Books

Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters
Matt Ridley
Harpercollins 2000

The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment
Richard C. Lewontin
Harvard University Press 2000

It Ain't Necessarily So: The Dream of the Human Genome Project and Other Illusions
Richard C. Lewontin
New York Review of Books 2000

Human Longevity
David WE Smith
Oxford University Press 1993

Technical References

The Metabolic and Molecular Basis of Inherited Disease
CR Scriver, AL Beauder, WS Sly, D Valle, eds.
McGraw Hill 1995

Chromosome Damage and Repair
E Seeberg
Plenum Publishing Corporation 1982

DNA Damage and Repair: DNA Repair in Higher Eukaryotes (Contemporary Cancer Research)
JA Nickoloff, N Hoekstra, MF Hoekstra, eds.
Humana Press 1999

Advances in DNA Damage and Repair: Oxygen Radical Effects, Cellular Protection, and Biological Consequences (NATO Asi Series, Series A, Life Sciences)
Miral Dizdaroglu, Ali Esat Karakaya, eds.
Plenum Publishing Corporation 1999

Correcting the Blueprint of Life: An Historical Account of the Discovery of DNA Repair Mechanisms
Errol C. Friedberg
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory 1997

DNA Recombination and Repair (Frontiers in Molecular Biology (Paper), 22)
Paul J. Smith, Christopher J. Jones, eds.
Oxford University Press 2000

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