Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
Type
Blog Post
Published
Aug. 10, 2017, 2:19 p.m.
...autosomal dominant mutation in MYBPC3 that leads to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An adult male with a heterozygous...containing Cas9 and two different gRNAs, and electroporated them with an ssODN repair template in induced...wild-type copies of MYBPC3 (versus 47.4% of untreated controls.) 27.6% of embryos carried indels at the mutation...blastocyst stage at similar rates to untreated controls. Ma et al. performed sequencing of 23 potential... conducted whole genome sequencing in selected control and CRISPR-Cas9 injected embryos. In all cases,...challenging for homozygous mutations. Moreover, introducing new DNA seems impossible with current tools, ...applicable in many situations. In the case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other genetic disorders, ...