Research Article

Syn-Lethality: An Integrative Knowledge Base of Synthetic Lethality towards Discovery of Selective Anticancer Therapies

Figure 1

The concept of synthetic lethality. (a) If just one of the SL pair genes is mutated, then the cell is alive. A/B wild type, a/b-mutated genes; (b) mutation/inhibition of one gene or both genes of a SL gene pair leads to different cell fates [2].
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