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Engineered zinc-finger proteins can compensate genetic haploinsufficiency by transcriptional activation of the wild-type allele: application to Willams-Beuren syndrome and supravalvular aortic stenosis.
Human gene therapy - 1 Nov 2012
Zhang Pei, Huang Angela, Morales-Ruiz Manuel, Starcher Barry C, Huang Yan, Sessa William C, Niklason Laura E, Giordano Frank J
Abstract excerpt
Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) and supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) are genetic syndromes marked by the propensity to develop severe vascular stenoses. Vascular lesions in both syndromes are caused by haploinsufficiency of the elastin gene. We used these distinct genetic syndromes as models t...
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