Human Germline Editing Using CRISPR
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...find those that do not carry a given dominant disease-causing gene, or that carry only one copy of a recessive...mutation in MYBPC3 that leads to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An adult male with a heterozygous 4 bp deletion... wild type allele (Figure 1). 72.4% of embryos carried two wild-type copies of MYBPC3 (versus 47.4% of...of untreated controls.) 27.6% of embryos carried indels at the mutation site, indicating that repair proceeded...many situations. In the case of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other genetic disorders, pre-implantation...