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Methods for Correction of the Single-Nucleotide Substitution c.840C>T in Exon 7 of the SMN2 Gene.
Biochemistry. Biokhimiia - 1 Sept 2019
Valetdinova K R, Ovechkina V S, Zakian S M
Abstract excerpt
The CRISPR/Cas technology has a great potential in the treatment of many hereditary diseases. One of the prospective models for the CRISPR/Cas-mediated therapy is spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a disease caused by deletion of the SMN1 gene that encodes the SMN protein required for the survival of motor neurons. SMA patients' genomes contain either single or several copies of SMN2 gene, which is a paralog of SMN1....
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