The in vitro drug screen of 93 CRC cell lines showed that PARP inhibition was active in a small subset of samples, based on the standardized and summed DSS (the PARP inhibitor sensitivity index) of four different PARP inhibitors (olaparib, niraparib, rucaparib and talazoparib...31% (16/52) of the PARP inhibitor resistant cell lines also had homozygous mutations in at least one of these genes, including truncating mutations in MSH3 (HCA7), PTEN (LIM2405) or ATM (SW1222).