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ReviewBiomedicines2023

Increasing Specificity of Targeted DNA Methylation Editing by Non-Enzymatic CRISPR/dCas9-Based Steric Hindrance.

Daniel M Sapozhnikov, Moshe Szyf

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Review in Biomedicines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Amplification-free, OR-gated CRISPR-Cascade reaction for pathogen detection in blood samples.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  8. Linking Aging to Cancer: The Role of Chromatin Biology.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Daniel M SapozhnikovDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5721-2782
Moshe SzyfDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC H3G 1Y6, Canada.

Funding

CIHR PJT159583
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As advances in genome engineering inch the technology towards wider clinical use-slowed by technical and ethical hurdles-a newer offshoot, termed "epigenome engineering", offers the ability to correct disease-causing changes in the DNA without changing its sequence and, thus, without some of the unfavorable correlates of doing so. In this review, we note some of the shortcomings of epigenetic editing technology-specifically the risks involved in the introduction of epigenetic enzymes-and highlight an alternative epigenetic editing strategy using physical occlusion to modify epigenetic marks at target sites without a requirement for any epigenetic enzyme. This may prove to be a safer alternative for more specific epigenetic editing.

Indexed as

CRISPR/Cas9dCas9demethylationDNA methylationDNMT1DNMT3Aepigenetic editingsteric hindranceTET1

Identifiers

PMID37238909
PMCPMC10215309

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