Identifying collateral and synthetic lethal vulnerabilities within the DNA-damage response
Background: A pair of genes is defined as synthetically lethal if defects on both cause the death of the cell but a defect in only one of the two is compatible with cell viability. Ideally, if A and B are two synthetic lethal genes, inhibiting B should kill cancer cells with a defect on A, and shoul...
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BioMed Central Ltd
2021
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