Evaluate the collective function of references cited together in a given text segment.
Classify their combined role into one of the following categories: 'method', 'background', or 'result'.

Text:…TONSL and BRCA1 both participate in the repair of stalled replication forks (Duro et al. 2010; O’Connell et al. 2010; O’Donnell et al. 2010; Piwko et al. 2010; Pathania
1962 GENES & DEVELOPMENT
Hill et al.
et al. 2011; Schlacher et al. 2012), we asked whether a BRCA1–TONSL complex is…
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