Term Name: DNA damage response
Synonyms: cellular DNA damage response, cellular response to DNA damage stimulus, response to DNA damage stimulus, response to genotoxic stress
Definition: Any process that results in a change in state or activity of a cell (in terms of movement, secretion, enzyme production, gene expression, etc.) as a result of a stimulus indicating damage to its DNA from environmental insults or errors during metabolism.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0006974]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: broken chromosome clustering DNA repair-dependent chromatin remodeling
is a type of: cellular response to stress
has subtype: DNA repair intrinsic apoptotic signaling pathway in response to DNA damage signal transduction in response to DNA damage SOS response telomere maintenance in response to DNA damage