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Synthetic lethal interactions for the development of cancer therapeutics: biological and methodological advancements.
Human genetics - 1 Dec 2010
Mizuarai Shinji, Kotani Hidehito
Abstract excerpt
Synthetic lethal interaction is defined as a combination of two mutations that is lethal when present in the same cell; each individual mutation is non-lethal. Synthetic lethal interactions attract attention in cancer research fields since the discovery of synthetic lethal genes with either oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) provides novel cancer therapeutic targets. Due to the selective lethal effect on...
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