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A universal gene correction approach for FKRP-associated dystroglycanopathies to enable autologous cell therapy.
Cell reports - 13 Jul 2021
Dhoke Neha R, Kim Hyunkee, Selvaraj Sridhar, Azzag Karim, Zhou Haowen, Oliveira Nelio A J, Tungtur Sudheer, Ortiz-Cordero Carolina, Kiley James, Lu Qi Long, Bang Anne G, Perlingeiro Rita C R
Abstract excerpt
Mutations in the fukutin-related protein (FKRP) gene result in a broad spectrum of muscular dystrophy (MD) phenotypes, including the severe Walker-Warburg syndrome (WWS). Here, we develop a gene-editing approach that replaces the entire mutant open reading frame with the wild-type sequence to universally correct all FKRP mutations. We apply this approach to correct FKRP mutations in induced pluripotent stem (iPS)...
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