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Therapeutic potential of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitor AG014699 in human cancers with mutated or methylated BRCA1 or BRCA2.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute - 16 Feb 2011
Drew Yvette, Mulligan Evan A, Vong Wan-Tse, Thomas Huw D, Kahn Samra, Kyle Suzanne, Mukhopadhyay Asima, Los Gerrit, Hostomsky Zdenek, Plummer Elizabeth R, Edmondson Richard J, Curtin Nicola J
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BACKGROUND: Mutations in BRCA1 and BRCA2 (BRCA1/2), components of the homologous recombination DNA repair (HRR) pathway, are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitors are selectively cytotoxic to animal cells with defective HRR, but results in human cancer cells have been contradictory. We undertook, to our knowledge, the first comprehensive in vitro and...
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