Cas9-mediated allelic exchange repairs compound heterozygous recessive mutations in mice.

Wang, Dan; Li, Jia; Song, Chun-Qing; Tran, Karen; Mou, Haiwei; Wu, Pei-Hsuan; Tai, Phillip W L; Mendonca, Craig A et al. · Nat Biotechnol · 2018

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We report a genome-editing strategy to correct compound heterozygous mutations, a common genotype in patients with recessive genetic disorders. Adeno-associated viral vector delivery of Cas9 and guide RNA induces allelic exchange and rescues the disease phenotype in mouse models of hereditary tyrosinemia type I and mucopolysaccharidosis type I. This approach recombines non-mutated genetic information present in two heterozygous alleles into one functional allele without using donor DNA templates.

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