Adeno-associated Viruses (AAVs) for Genome Editing
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 27, 2018, 1:32 p.m.
... introduce naturally occurring cancer-causing mutations into the endogenous allele of the STAG2 tumor ... introducing non-sequence specific frameshift mutations through aberrant double strand break repair, it...knockins, it is not always ideal. Because of these limitations, the AAV approach is best suited for tissue culture...epitope tags, or the introduction of dominant mutations of a gene into the endogenous allele in cultured...template to mouse zygotes and thereby correct a mutation that causes Hemophilia B.
Unfortunately, work ...applications that require large gene fusions. The current state-of-the-art in combining the AAV and CRISPR-based...segregation in human cells harboring tumor-derived mutations in STAG2." PLoS genetics 12.2 (2016): e1005865...