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Modeling Dominant and Recessive Forms of Retinitis Pigmentosa by Editing Three Rhodopsin-Encoding Genes in Xenopus Laevis Using Crispr/Cas9.
Scientific reports - 31 Jul 2017
Feehan Joanna M, Chiu Colette N, Stanar Paloma, Tam Beatrice M, Ahmed Sheikh N, Moritz Orson L
Abstract excerpt
The utility of Xenopus laevis, a common research subject for developmental biology, retinal physiology, cell biology, and other investigations, has been limited by lack of a robust gene knockout or knock-down technology. Here we describe manipulation of the X. laevis genome using CRISPR/Cas9 to model the human disorder retinitis pigmentosa, and to introduce point mutations or exogenous DNA sequences. We...
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