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ReviewTheranostics2020

Allele-specific genome targeting in the development of precision medicine.

Junjiao Wu, Beisha Tang, Yu Tang

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Review in Theranostics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. How Genomic and Structural Context Could Shape JAK-STAT Variant Pathogenicity.Twin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies · 2026
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  13. CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene therapy in lung cancer.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2023
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  14. Full-Length Transcript Phasing with Third-Generation Sequencing.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Junjiao WuNational Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Department of Geriatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Beisha TangNational Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Department of Geriatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.
Yu TangNational Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Disorders, Department of Geriatrics, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410008, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The CRISPR-based genome editing holds immense potential to fix disease-causing mutations, however, must also handle substantial natural genetic variations between individuals. Previous studies have shown that mismatches between the single guide RNA (sgRNA) and genomic DNA may negatively impact sgRNA efficiencies and lead to imprecise specificity prediction. Hence, the genetic variations bring about a great challenge for designing platinum sgRNAs in large human populations. However, they also provide a promising entry for designing allele-specific sgRNAs for the treatment of each individual. The CRISPR system is rather specific, with the potential ability to discriminate between similar alleles, even based on a single nucleotide difference. Genetic variants contribute to the discrimination capabilities, once they generate a novel protospacer adjacent motif (PAM) site or locate in the seed region near an available PAM. Therefore, it can be leveraged to establish allele-specific targeting in numerous dominant human disorders, by selectively ablating the deleterious alleles. So far, allele-specific CRISPR has been increasingly implemented not only in treating dominantly inherited diseases, but also in research areas such as genome imprinting, haploinsufficiency, spatiotemporal loci imaging and immunocompatible manipulations. In this review, we will describe the working principles of allele-specific genome manipulations by virtue of expanding engineering tools of CRISPR. And then we will review new advances in the versatile applications of allele-specific CRISPR targeting in treating human genetic diseases, as well as in a series of other interesting research areas. Lastly, we will discuss their potential therapeutic utilities and considerations in the era of precision medicine.

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AllelesComputational BiologyCRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA End-Joining RepairDrug DesignEpigenomeGene EditingGenetic Diseases, InbornGenetic TherapyGenetic VariationGenome, HumanHaploinsufficiencyHistocompatibilityHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMutagenesis, Site-DirectedRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systemsallele-specificCRISPRgenetic variantsgenomic editingSNP

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PMID32194858
PMCPMC7053192

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