Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
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Blog Post
...tool that could analyze CRISPR sgRNAs and report the likelihood of any given sgRNA having an ancestral bias...extension, race.
Many researchers do large-scale CRISPR screens in cancer cell lines, looking to uncover... and Boehm labs pulled data from more than 1000 CRISPR screens in DepMap to see if they could identify...Since about 90% of the cell lines used in DepMap CRISPR screens are of either European or East Asian ancestry...it was coming through an unexpected source: the CRISPR guides, short pieces of RNA that bind to a cell...does the reference genome actually reference?
The CRISPR guides used in the screens they analyzed were designed...reference genome – even single mismatches within a CRISPR guide can prevent the guide from binding to the...