One study found that knocking out the SLFN11 gene using the CRISPR/Cas9 technique could induce resistance to talazoparib, a PARP inhibitor in small-cell lung cancer cells, which indicates the role of SLFN11 in attenuating drug resistance and suggests that SLFN11 expression may be a predictive marker of response to the PARP inhibitor in cancer cells [154]. Here, SLFN11 is linked to cancer.