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Abundance of conserved CRISPR-Cas9 target sites within the highly polymorphic genomes of Anopheles and Aedes mosquitoes.
Nature communications - 18 Mar 2020
Schmidt Hanno, Collier Travis C, Hanemaaijer Mark J, Houston Parker D, Lee Yoosook, Lanzaro Gregory C
Abstract excerpt
A number of recent papers report that standing genetic variation in natural populations includes ubiquitous polymorphisms within target sites for Cas9-based gene drive (CGD) and that these "drive resistant alleles" (DRA) preclude the successful application of CGD for managing these populations. Here we report the results of a survey of 1280 genomes of the mosquitoes Anopheles gambiae, An. coluzzii, and Aedes...
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