Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
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Take, for instance, a recent preprint released by the Boehm and Beroukhim labs at the Broad Institute...genetic dependencies of individual tumors, which can lead to new cancer targets and related biomarkers . Data...strongly correlated genetic dependencies that were clearly associated with European or East Asian ancestry... accounted for in the CRISPR guides they used, leading to mismatches between the guides and the lines’...undercounted by approximately 20%. In some cases, this may lead researchers to deprioritize genes that could be ...