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ArticleNature biotechnology2017

CRISPR-Cas9 epigenome editing enables high-throughput screening for functional regulatory elements in the human genome.

Tyler S Klann, Joshua B Black, Malathi Chellappan, Alexias Safi, Lingyun Song, Isaac B Hilton, Gregory E Crawford, Timothy E Reddy, Charles A Gersbach

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 243 papers.

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243citing papers in PubMed
26.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

243 citing papers in PubMed, 466 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Tuning epigenetics to enhance cancer virotherapy.Acta pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2026
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  8. Advances and clinical potential of epigenome editing.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2026
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  14. Epigenetic editing: from concept to clinic.Nature reviews. Drug discovery · 2026
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  15. Distinguishing causal from tagging enhancers using single-cell multiome data.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026
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  16. Scaling perturbations: beyond genome-scale CRISPR screens.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  20. Epigenome editing based treatment: Progresses and challenges.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tyler S KlannDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Joshua B BlackDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Malathi ChellappanDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Alexias SafiCenter for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Lingyun SongCenter for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Isaac B HiltonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3064-8532
Gregory E CrawfordCenter for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Timothy E ReddyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7629-061X
Charles A GersbachDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Duke University · US

Funding

University Training Program in Biomolecular & Tissue EngineeringT32GM008555 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 1994 to 2021
$8.1M
Decoding and Reprogramming the Corticosteroid Transcriptional Regulatory NetworkU01HG007900 · NHGRI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI REDDY, TIMOTHY E · 2015 to 2017
$5.9M
Engineering Targeted Epigenetic Modifiers for Precise Control of Gene RegulationR01DA036865 · NIDA · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, GREGORY E, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2013 to 2017
$2.6M
Engineering Morphogenetic Factors for Enhanced Genetic ReprogrammingDP2OD008586 · OD · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2011 to 2011
$2.4M
Tissue Procurement and Analysis CoreP30AR066527 · NIAMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HALL, RUSSELL P. · 2014 to 2015
$1.3M
A Platform Technology for High-Throughput Screening of Gene Regulatory ElementsR41GM119914 · NIGMS · ELEMENT GENOMICS, INC. · PI CRAWFORD, GREGORY E, GERSBACH, CHARLES A. · 2016 to 2016
$225k
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG007900NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR066527NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA036865NIGMS NIH HHS R41 GM119914NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008555NIH HHS DP2 OD008586
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Large genome-mapping consortia and thousands of genome-wide association studies have identified non-protein-coding elements in the genome as having a central role in various biological processes. However, decoding the functions of the millions of putative regulatory elements discovered in these studies remains challenging. CRISPR-Cas9-based epigenome editing technologies have enabled precise perturbation of the activity of specific regulatory elements. Here we describe CRISPR-Cas9-based epigenomic regulatory element screening (CERES) for improved high-throughput screening of regulatory element activity in the native genomic context. Using dCas9

Indexed as

CRISPR-Cas SystemsChromosome MappingClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsCRISPR-Associated ProteinsEpigenomicsGene EditingGenome, HumanHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansRegulatory Elements, TranscriptionalSequence Analysis, DNACRISPR-Associated Proteins

Identifiers

PMID28369033
PMCPMC5462860
OpenAlexW2604130415

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