Notably the potent cancer cell specific killing observed in pancreatic cancer following Cdc7 inhibition or depletion contrasts with the stable G1 arrest observed in untransformed normal human diploid fibroblasts (IMR-90) with an intact DNA origin activation checkpoint and mirrors the G1 cell cycle arrest observed in previous studies with primary untransformed cell lines [9, 21, 23]. The gene discussed is CDC7; the disease is cancer.