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Chromosome engineering in zygotes with CRISPR/Cas9.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Boroviak, Katharina 
Doe, Brendan 
Banerjee, Ruby 
Yang, Fengtang 

Abstract

Deletions, duplications, and inversions of large genomic regions covering several genes are an important class of disease causing variants in humans. Modeling these structural variants in mice requires multistep processes in ES cells, which has limited their availability. Mutant mice containing small insertions, deletions, and single nucleotide polymorphisms can be reliably generated using CRISPR/Cas9 directly in mouse zygotes. Large structural variants can be generated using CRISPR/Cas9 in ES cells, but it has not been possible to generate these directly in zygotes. We now demonstrate the direct generation of deletions, duplications and inversions of up to one million base pairs by zygote injection.

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Keywords

CRISPR/Cas9, large structural variants, zygote injection, Animals, Base Sequence, CRISPR-Cas Systems, Chromosome Duplication, Chromosome Inversion, Chromosomes, DNA, Feasibility Studies, Female, Genetic Engineering, Male, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Molecular Sequence Data

Journal Title

Genesis

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Journal ISSN

1526-954X
1526-968X

Volume Title

54

Publisher

Wiley