Controlling for Off-target Effects with a New Genome-wide CRISPR Screen Design
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...and predicted on-target activity was balanced with predicted off-target activity when selecting guides....lower off-target activity, but it could also be caused by a reduction of on-target activity. However, there...-target activity, Morgens et al drew some generalizable conclusions about off-target activity, demonstrate...off-target cutting without a reduction of on-target activity, but it’s unclear if this holds true in genome-wide...characteristics that influence gRNA off-target activity: 1) mismatches closer to the PAM are less tolerated...guides with high GC content have greater off-target activity.
Short gRNAs have lower off-target cutting and...specificity with only a small loss of on-target activity in high-throughput screens. The human and mouse...