Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Pan-cancer landscape of homologous recombination deficiency

  • Luan Nguyen,
  • John W. M. Martens,
  • Arne Van Hoeck,
  • Edwin Cuppen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19406-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Cancers deficient in homologous recombination can benefit from treatment with poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitors. Here, the authors generated a classifier that can predict homologous recombination deficiency from genomic data and suggest several cancer types that may benefit from PARP inhibitor treatment.