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ArticleNature2025

Heritable polygenic editing: the next frontier in genomic medicine?

Peter M Visscher, Christopher Gyngell, Loic Yengo, Julian Savulescu

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing 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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. An introduction to polygenic scores - methodological basics and recent advances.Medizinische Genetik : Mitteilungsblatt des Berufsverbandes Medizinische Genetik e.V · 2026
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  3. Graph statistics theory of individualized quantitative genetics under haplotype-resolved genome assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  6. Quo Vadis translational neuroscience?Translational neuroscience · 2026
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  10. Gene Therapy Techniques and Delivery Methods (Review).Sovremennye tekhnologii v meditsine · 2025
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  12. The Last Mile in Beta-Cell Replacement Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes: Time to Grow Up.Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Peter M VisscherInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. peter.visscher@uq.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0002-2143-8760
Christopher GyngellMurdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Loic YengoInstitute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Julian SavulescuMurdoch Children's Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. julian.savulescu@philosophy.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-1691-6403

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polygenic genome editing in human embryos and germ cells is predicted to become feasible in the next three decades. Several recent books and academic papers have outlined the ethical concerns raised by germline genome editing and the opportunities that it may present

Indexed as

Gene EditingGenome, HumanGenomicsMultifactorial InheritanceAlzheimer DiseaseCoronary Artery DiseaseGenetic PleiotropyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseGenetic VariationHumansMajor Depressive DisorderRisk FactorsSchizophrenia

Identifiers

PMID39779842
PMCPMC11735401

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