Synthetic lethality and cancer

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2017, Pages 613-623

  O'Neil, Nigel J ^a   Bailey, Melanie L ^a   Hieter, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRISPR-CAS9 SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; LARGE SCALE PRODUCTION; LETHALITY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; EPISTASIS; GENETICS; MOLECULARLY TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANIMALS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85029507469     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2017.47     Document Type: Review

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