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ArticleNature2022

Mitochondrial base editor induces substantial nuclear off-target mutations.

Zhixin Lei, Haowei Meng, Lulu Liu, Huanan Zhao, Xichen Rao, Yongchang Yan, Hao Wu, Min Liu, Aibin He, Chengqi Yi

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Article in Nature, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 81 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

81 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Base editors model mitochondrial disease.Nature biotechnology · 2026
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  18. An engineered mitoCBE facilitates efficient mitochondrial DNA editing and modified mitochondrial transfer.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Zhixin Lei *Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1221-487X
Haowei Meng *State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9695-5060
Lulu Liu *State Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Huanan Zhao *School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4934-4731
Xichen RaoState Key Laboratory of Protein and Plant Gene Research, School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2450-4521
Yongchang YanPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Hao WuPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Min LiuPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Aibin HePeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3489-2305
Chengqi YiPeking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China. chengqi.yi@pku.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2540-9729

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

DddA-derived cytosine base editors (DdCBEs)-which are fusions of split DddA halves and transcription activator-like effector (TALE) array proteins from bacteria-enable targeted C•G-to-T•A conversions in mitochondrial DNA

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Cell NucleusCytosineGene EditingMitochondriaMutationDNA, MitochondrialCytosineDNA, Mitochondrial

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