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SUBMITTER: Lattanzi A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5363679 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids 20170210
Exonic duplications account for 10%-15% of all mutations in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe hereditary neuromuscular disorder. We report a CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9-based strategy to correct the most frequent (exon 2) duplication in the DMD gene by targeted deletion, and tested the efficacy of such an approach in patient-derived myogenic cells. We demonstrate restoration of wild-type dystrophin expression at transcriptional and protein lev ...[more]