synthetic lethality
English
Noun
synthetic lethality (usually uncountable, plural synthetic lethalities)
- (genetics) A type of genetic interaction in which two (or more) mutations which are not lethal when occurring singly in a cell are lethal when they occur together in the same cell.
References
- 2002, Maloy, Stanley; French-Mischo, Stephanie (2002), “Synthetic Lethal Mutations”, in Microbial Genetics (in English), San Diego State University, archived from the original on 2003-05-13, retrieved 2009
- Le Meur, Nolwenn; Gentleman, Robert (2008), “Modeling synthetic lethality”, in Genome Biology, volume 9, DOI:, archived from the original on 2012-10-14, retrieved 11 December 2009, page R135