“…Genomic DNA is constantly exposed to exogenous stimuli, such as ultraviolet (UV) or gamma radiation (Takahashi et al 2019, Suto et al 2020, environmental pollution (Basu et al 2019, Hani et al 2020, artificial chemicals (Ergin et al 2020, Gantayat et al 2020, chemotherapeutic drugs (Gupta et al 2020), dietary genotoxins, and endogenous stimulants during physiological cellular processes (Jackson and Bartek 2009, Paigen and Petkov 2010, Diaz and Pecinka 2017, Tubbs and Nussenzweig 2017, Toyoda and Matsunaga 2019, Marques et al 2020, Mingard et al 2020, Nishioka et al 2020. These stimulants are known to induce approximately 70,000 lesions every day in each human cell, including single-strand breaks (SSBs) and double-strand breaks (DSBs), which are essentially fixed via various DNA repair pathways (Kunkel 2015, Tubbs andNussenzweig 2017); however, sometimes DNA damage is not repaired correctly, and the accumulation of these unrepaired damages is known to cause various pathological conditions, such as premature aging, cancer, and neurological disorders (Lord and Ashworth 2012, Baranello et al 2014, Canela et al 2016, González and Plasencia 2017.…”