double-strand break repair via homologous recombination (GO:0000724)

The error-free repair of a double-strand break in DNA in which the broken DNA molecule is repaired using homologous sequences. A strand in the broken DNA searches for a homologous region in an intact chromosome to serve as the template for DNA synthesis. The restoration of two intact DNA molecules results in the exchange, reciprocal or nonreciprocal, of genetic material between the intact DNA molecule and the broken DNA molecule.

Specific

double-strand break repair via break-induced replication (GO:0000727) double-strand break repair via synthesis-dependent strand annealing (GO:0045003) replication-born double-strand break repair via sister chromatid exchange (GO:1990414)

General

double-strand break repair (GO:0006302) recombinational repair (GO:0000725)

References

gene ontology: GO:0000724 PMID: 10357855