False positive results in chimeraplasty for von Willebrand Disease.

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Chimeraplasty or the use of chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides (RDOs) to correct single-base mutations emerged in the field of gene therapy with reported base pair conversions of up to 40%. We investigated the applicability of chimeraplasty to correct a point mutation in the von Willebrand Factor (VWF) gene resulting in a von Willebrand Disease (VWD) type 3 phenotype. Although we have access to VWD type 3 dogs, we...

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