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Synthetic lethality between gene defects affecting a single non-essential molecular pathway with reversible steps.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Apr 2013
Zinovyev Andrei, Kuperstein Inna, Barillot Emmanuel, Heyer Wolf-Dietrich
Abstract excerpt
Systematic analysis of synthetic lethality (SL) constitutes a critical tool for systems biology to decipher molecular pathways. The most accepted mechanistic explanation of SL is that the two genes function in parallel, mutually compensatory pathways, known as between-pathway SL. However, recent genome-wide analyses in yeast identified a significant number of within-pathway negative genetic interactions. The...
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