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Base editing correction of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human cardiomyocytes and humanized mice.
Nature medicine - 1 Feb 2023
Chai Andreas C, Cui Miao, Chemello Francesco, Li Hui, Chen Kenian, Tan Wei, Atmanli Ayhan, McAnally John R, Zhang Yu, Xu Lin, Liu Ning, Bassel-Duby Rhonda, Olson Eric N
Abstract excerpt
The most common form of genetic heart disease is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), which is caused by variants in cardiac sarcomeric genes and leads to abnormal heart muscle thickening. Complications of HCM include heart failure, arrhythmia and sudden cardiac death. The dominant-negative c.1208G>A (p.R403Q) pathogenic variant (PV) in β-myosin (MYH7) is a common and well-studied PV that leads to increased cardiac...
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