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. 2021 Aug;22(8):479.
doi: 10.1038/s41576-021-00382-4.

Base editing takes a shot at disease in non-human primates

Linda Koch  1
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Base editing takes a shot at disease in non-human primates

Linda Koch. Nat Rev Genet. 2021 Aug.
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  • In vivo CRISPR base editing of PCSK9 durably lowers cholesterol in primates.
    Musunuru K, Chadwick AC, Mizoguchi T, Garcia SP, DeNizio JE, Reiss CW, Wang K, Iyer S, Dutta C, Clendaniel V, Amaonye M, Beach A, Berth K, Biswas S, Braun MC, Chen HM, Colace TV, Ganey JD, Gangopadhyay SA, Garrity R, Kasiewicz LN, Lavoie J, Madsen JA, Matsumoto Y, Mazzola AM, Nasrullah YS, Nneji J, Ren H, Sanjeev A, Shay M, Stahley MR, Fan SHY, Tam YK, Gaudelli NM, Ciaramella G, Stolz LE, Malyala P, Cheng CJ, Rajeev KG, Rohde E, Bellinger AM, Kathiresan S. Musunuru K, et al. Nature. 2021 May;593(7859):429-434. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03534-y. Epub 2021 May 19. Nature. 2021. PMID: 34012082
  • In vivo adenine base editing of PCSK9 in macaques reduces LDL cholesterol levels.
    Rothgangl T, Dennis MK, Lin PJC, Oka R, Witzigmann D, Villiger L, Qi W, Hruzova M, Kissling L, Lenggenhager D, Borrelli C, Egli S, Frey N, Bakker N, Walker JA 2nd, Kadina AP, Victorov DV, Pacesa M, Kreutzer S, Kontarakis Z, Moor A, Jinek M, Weissman D, Stoffel M, van Boxtel R, Holden K, Pardi N, Thöny B, Häberle J, Tam YK, Semple SC, Schwank G. Rothgangl T, et al. Nat Biotechnol. 2021 Aug;39(8):949-957. doi: 10.1038/s41587-021-00933-4. Epub 2021 May 19. Nat Biotechnol. 2021. PMID: 34012094 Free PMC article.

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Original articles
    1. Musunuru, K. et al. In vivo CRISPR base editing of PCSK9 durably lowers cholesterol in primates. Nature 593, 429–434 (2021) - DOI
    1. Rothgangl, T. et al. In vivo adenine base editing of PCSK9 in macaques reduces LDL cholesterol levels. Nat. Biotechnol. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-021-00933-4 (2021) - DOI
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    1. Rees, H. A. & Liu, D. R. Base editing: precision chemistry on the genome and transcriptome of living cells. Nat. Rev. Genet. 19, 770–788 (2018) - DOI

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