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Allele-specific siRNA knockdown as a personalized treatment strategy for vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome in human fibroblasts.
FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology - 1 Feb 2012
Müller Gerd A, Hansen Uwe, Xu Zhi, Griswold Benjamin, Talan Mark I, McDonnell Nazli B, Briest Wilfried
Abstract excerpt
The vascular type of the Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) is caused by dominant-negative mutations in the procollagen type III (COL3A1) gene. Patients with this autosomal dominant disorder have a shortened life expectancy due to complications from ruptured vessels or hollow organs. We tested the effectiveness of allele-specific RNA interference (RNAi) to reduce the mutated phenotype in fibroblasts. Small-interfering...
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