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ArticleNucleic acids research2023

Detection of unintended on-target effects in CRISPR genome editing by DNA donors carrying diagnostic substitutions.

Martin Lackner, Nelly Helmbrecht, Svante Pääbo, Stephan Riesenberg

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Off-target detection of CRISPR-Cas9 nucleaseSynthetic biology (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  7. AAV vector-derived elements integrate into Cas9-generated double-strand breaks and disrupt gene transcription.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2024
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  8. Targeted Gene Insertion: The Cutting Edge of CRISPR Drug Development with Hemophilia as a Highlight.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2024
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4 authors.

Martin LacknerMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8450-7295
Nelly HelmbrechtMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen 04103, Germany.
Svante PääboMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen 04103, Germany.
Stephan RiesenbergMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Sachsen 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8171-1717

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CRISPR nucleases can introduce double-stranded DNA breaks in genomes at positions specified by guide RNAs. When repaired by the cell, this may result in the introduction of insertions and deletions or nucleotide substitutions provided by exogenous DNA donors. However, cellular repair can also result in unintended on-target effects, primarily larger deletions and loss of heterozygosity due to gene conversion. Here we present a strategy that allows easy and reliable detection of unintended on-target effects as well as the generation of control cells that carry wild-type alleles but have demonstratively undergone genome editing at the target site. Our 'sequence-ascertained favorable editing' (SAFE) donor approach relies on the use of DNA donor mixtures containing the desired nucleotide substitutions or the wild-type alleles together with combinations of additional 'diagnostic' substitutions unlikely to have any effects. Sequencing of the target sites then results in that two different sequences are seen when both chromosomes are edited with 'SAFE' donors containing different sets of substitutions, while a single sequence indicates unintended effects such as deletions or gene conversion. We analyzed more than 850 human embryonic stem cell clones edited with 'SAFE' donors and detect all copy number changes and almost all clones with gene conversion.

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CRISPR-Cas SystemsDNA Mutational AnalysisGene EditingClustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic RepeatsDNAEmbryonic Stem CellsHumansNucleotidesDNANucleotides

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PMID36620901
PMCPMC10018342

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