Synthetic lethality in cancer

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Cancer Biology subtree

Two gene perturbations are synthetically lethal if each alone is tolerated but their combination kills the cell. Exploited therapeutically in cancer: BRCA1/BRCA2-mutant tumors have lost homologous-recombination repair and are selectively…

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