Synthetic Lethal Mutations
"Synthetic Lethal Mutations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Mutations in genes which lead to cell or organism death when occurring in combination with mutations in one or more other genes.
| Descriptor ID |
D000072020
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G05.365.590.917
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| Concept/Terms |
Synthetic Lethal Mutations- Synthetic Lethal Mutations
- Synthetic Lethal Mutation
- Lethal Mutation, Synthetic
- Lethal Mutations, Synthetic
- Mutation, Synthetic Lethal
- Mutations, Synthetic Lethal
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Synthetic Lethal Mutations" by people in Profiles.
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Synthetic lethality screens point the way to new cancer drug targets. Nat Rev Drug Discov. 2017 09 01; 16(9):589-591.