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Efficient generation of P53 biallelic knockout Diannan miniature pigs via TALENs and somatic cell nuclear transfer.
Journal of translational medicine - 3 Nov 2017
Shen Youfeng, Xu Kaixiang, Yuan Zaimei, Guo Jianxiong, Zhao Heng, Zhang Xuezeng, Zhao Lu, Qing Yubo, Li Honghui, Pan Weirong, Jia Baoyu, Zhao Hong-Ye, Wei Hong-Jiang
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BACKGROUND: Pigs have many features that make them attractive as biomedical models for various diseases, including cancer. P53 is an important tumor suppressor gene that exerts a central role in protecting cells from oncogenic transformation and is mutated in a large number of human cancers. P53 mutations occur in almost every type of tumor and in over 50% of all tumors. In a recent publication, pigs with a...
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