CRISPR/Cas9-mediated excision of ALS/FTD-causing hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 rescues major disease mechanisms in vivo and in vitro

Autor: Katharina E. Meijboom, Abbas Abdallah, Nicholas P. Fordham, Hiroko Nagase, Tomás Rodriguez, Carolyn Kraus, Tania F. Gendron, Gopinath Krishnan, Rustam Esanov, Nadja S. Andrade, Matthew J. Rybin, Melina Ramic, Zachary D. Stephens, Alireza Edraki, Meghan T. Blackwood, Aydan Kahriman, Nils Henninger, Jean-Pierre A. Kocher, Michael Benatar, Michael H. Brodsky, Leonard Petrucelli, Fen-Biao Gao, Erik J. Sontheimer, Robert H. Brown, Zane Zeier, Christian Mueller
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 13, Iss 1, Pp 1-17 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-33332-7
Popis: A hexanucleotide repeat expansion in C9ORF72 is the most common genetic cause of ALS and FTD. Here, the authors demonstrate CRISPR/Cas9 excision of the expansion results in a rescue of disease mechanisms in vivo and in vitro.
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