Genome-wide microhomologies enable precise template-free editing of biologically relevant deletion mutations

Autor: Janin Grajcarek, Jean Monlong, Yoko Nishinaka-Arai, Michiko Nakamura, Miki Nagai, Shiori Matsuo, David Lougheed, Hidetoshi Sakurai, Megumu K. Saito, Guillaume Bourque, Knut Woltjen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-12829-8
Popis: DNA repair by microhomology-mediated end joining creates precise deletions based on flanking microhomologies. Here the authors use CRISPR-Cas9 to recreate pathogenic deletion mutations using existing microhomologies in the human genome identified by their program MHcut.
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