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ArticlePLoS computational biology2021

Machine learning based CRISPR gRNA design for therapeutic exon skipping.

Wilson Louie, Max W Shen, Zakir Tahiry, Sophia Zhang, Daniel Worstell, Christopher A Cassa, Richard I Sherwood, David K Gifford

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Wilson LouieComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-0194-5084
Max W ShenComputational and Systems Biology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-4226-1861
Zakir TahiryDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Sophia ZhangDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-1494-8906
Daniel WorstellDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-0632-1986
Christopher A CassaDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0002-5771-9177
Richard I SherwoodDivision of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0001-7427-7713
David K GiffordComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.ORCID 0000-0003-1709-4034
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Graduate Training in Computational and Systems BiologyT32GM087237 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BURGE, CHRISTOPHER B · 2009 to 2023
$4.6M
Integrated pathogenicity assessment of clinically actionable genetic variantsR01HG010372 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CASSA, CHRISTOPHER · 2018 to 2022
$3.5M
High-Throughput Native Context Mapping and Modeling of Regulatory DNAR01HG008754 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GIFFORD, DAVID K · 2016 to 2019
$2.7M
High-throughput methods for elucidating the control of chromatin accessibilityR01HG008363 · NHGRI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI GIFFORD, DAVID K · 2015 to 2017
$2.3M
Urgent Supplement: Correcting genetic disorders using predictable CRISPR/Cas9-induced exon skippingR21HG010391 · NHGRI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI CASSA, CHRISTOPHER, SHERWOOD, RICHARD I · 2019 to 2020
$632k
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG008363NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG008754NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG010372NHGRI NIH HHS R21 HG010391NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM087237
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Restoring gene function by the induced skipping of deleterious exons has been shown to be effective for treating genetic disorders. However, many of the clinically successful therapies for exon skipping are transient oligonucleotide-based treatments that require frequent dosing. CRISPR-Cas9 based genome editing that causes exon skipping is a promising therapeutic modality that may offer permanent alleviation of genetic disease. We show that machine learning can select Cas9 guide RNAs that disrupt splice acceptors and cause the skipping of targeted exons. We experimentally measured the exon skipping frequencies of a diverse genome-integrated library of 791 splice sequences targeted by 1,063 guide RNAs in mouse embryonic stem cells. We found that our method, SkipGuide, is able to identify effective guide RNAs with a precision of 0.68 (50% threshold predicted exon skipping frequency) and 0.93 (70% threshold predicted exon skipping frequency). We anticipate that SkipGuide will be useful for selecting guide RNA candidates for evaluation of CRISPR-Cas9-mediated exon skipping therapy.

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Machine LearningAnimalsCells, CulturedCRISPR-Cas SystemsEmbryonic Stem CellsExonsGene EditingGene LibraryGenetic TherapyHumansMiceRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas SystemsRNA, Guide, CRISPR-Cas Systems

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PMID33417623
PMCPMC7819613
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