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SUBMITTER: Gantz VM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4687737 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gantz Valentino M VM Bier Ethan E
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20150319 6233
An organism with a single recessive loss-of-function allele will typically have a wild-type phenotype, whereas individuals homozygous for two copies of the allele will display a mutant phenotype. We have developed a method called the mutagenic chain reaction (MCR), which is based on the CRISPR/Cas9 genome-editing system for generating autocatalytic mutations, to produce homozygous loss-of-function mutations. In Drosophila, we found that MCR mutations efficiently spread from their chromosome of o ...[more]