Mapping genetic interactions in cancer: a road to rational combination therapies

Abstract The discovery of synthetic lethal interactions between poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors and BRCA genes, which are involved in homologous recombination, led to the approval of PARP inhibition as a monotherapy for patients with BRCA1/2-mutated breast or ovarian cancer. Studies f...

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Main Authors: Beril Tutuncuoglu, Nevan J. Krogan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-10-01
Series:Genome Medicine
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13073-019-0680-4