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From: Copy-number variation of cancer-gene orthologs is sufficient to induce cancer-like symptoms in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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The relevance of haploproficiency and hypertolerance to drug interventions. a) specific inhibition, but not complete protein-product ablation, of an HP target prompts increased growth; b) case where the cancer cell itself bears a CNV of an HP gene, the deletion mutant phenotype may better predict cancer cell drug response; c) case where the deletion mutant for a specific gene is hypertolerant to a compound inhibiting a distinct target, a combination therapy of the same compound plus an inhibitor of the first gene is unlikely to elicit a positive therapeutic response.

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