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ArticleeLife2024

Base editing strategies to convert CAG to CAA diminish the disease-causing mutation in Huntington's disease.

Doo Eun Choi, Jun Wan Shin, Sophia Zeng, Eun Pyo Hong, Jae-Hyun Jang, Jacob M Loupe, Vanessa C Wheeler, Hannah E Stutzman, Ben Kleinstiver, Jong-Min Lee

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Treatment of Huntington's disease with a pan-HTT-targeting CRISPR nuclease.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  13. 3A or not 3A: Cytidine deaminases in the etiology of the CAG-repeat expansion diseases.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  14. APOBEC3A deaminates CTG hairpin loops to promote fragility and instability of expanded CAG/CTG repeats.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Doo Eun ChoiCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Jun Wan ShinCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Sophia ZengCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Eun Pyo HongCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7789-686X
Jae-Hyun JangCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Jacob M LoupeCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Vanessa C WheelerCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2619-589X
Hannah E StutzmanCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-437X
Ben KleinstiverCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
Jong-Min LeeCenter for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5799-0787

Funding

Huntington's Disease Repeat Instability and PathogenesisR01NS049206 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI VANESSA C WHEELER · 2005 to 2026
$10.0M
Disease-Modifying Genes in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS091161 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI JAMES F GUSELLA · 2015 to 2026
$7.2M
Therapeutic Potential of Base Editing Strategies to Convert CAG to CAA in Huntington's DiseaseR01NS119471 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEE, JONG-MIN · 2021 to 2025
$2.6M
Genetic foundation for complete mutant allele-specific CRISPR in neurodegenerative diseasesR01NS105709 · NINDS · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI LEE, JONG-MIN · 2018 to 2022
$2.4M
NINDS NIH HHS NS049206NINDS NIH HHS NS105709NINDS NIH HHS NS119471NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS049206NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS105709NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS119471
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

An expanded CAG repeat in the huntingtin gene (

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Gene EditingHuntingtin ProteinHuntington DiseaseTrinucleotide Repeat ExpansionAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGene Knock-In TechniquesHumansMiceMutationHtt protein, mouseHuntingtin Proteinbase editingCAG repeat instabilityCAG-to-CAA conversionduplicated interruptiongeneticsgenomicshumanHuntington's diseaseuninterrupted repeat

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PMID38869243
PMCPMC11175616

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