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Synthetic lethality (SL) has been widely used to characterize genetic interactions based on cell viability, but predictive models are often limited by the availability of combinatorial double-knockout (CDKO) data for individual cancer cells. How to borrow information from CDKO experiments in other cancer cells to improve prediction in a targeted cancer cell remains an important challenge.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We investigated the CDKO effects of paired genes using both SL as an indirect measure and gene combination effect as a direct measure. We developed TL-iGeneCombo, a transfer learning approach, to borrow data from CDKO experiments in other cancer cells for the prediction of SL and gene combination effect in a targeted cancer cell. Applying TL-iGeneCombo improved the accuracy of SL classification by 19% and increased the Spearman correlation of gene combination effect scores by 29%. Using data and models built from the first CDKO experiment in a prostate cancer cell, 22RV1, we further designed gene pairs for a second CDKO experiment in the same cell. 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