Introducing sense into nonsense in treatments of human genetic diseases.

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Approximately one-third of alleles causing genetic diseases carry premature termination codons (PTCs), which lead to the production of truncated proteins. The past decade has seen considerable interest in therapeutic approaches aimed at readthrough of in-frame PTCs to enable synthesis of full-length proteins. However, attempts to readthrough PTCs in many diseases resulted in variable effects. Here, we focus on...

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