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Targeted-Deletion of a Tiny Sequence via Prime Editing to Restore SMN Expression
19 Jul 2022
Abstract excerpt
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a devastating autosomal recessive motor neuron disease associated with mutations in the survival motor neuron 1 (SMN1) gene, the leading genetic cause of infant mortality. A nearly identical copy gene (SMN2) is retained in almost all patients with SMA. However, SMN2 fails to prevent disease development because of its alternative splicing, leading to a lack of exon 7 in the...
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