Design of efficacious somatic cell genome editing strategies for recessive and polygenic diseases.

ABSTRACT: Compound heterozygous recessive or polygenic diseases could be addressed through gene correction of multiple alleles. However, targeting of multiple alleles using genome editors could lead to mixed genotypes and adverse events that amplify during tissue morphogenesis. Here we demonstrate that Cas9-ribonucleoprotein-based genome editors can correct two distinct mutant alleles within a single human cell precisely. Gene-corrected cells in an induced pluripotent stem cell model of Pompe disease expressed the corrected transcript from both corrected alleles, leading to enzymatic cross-correction of diseased cells. Using a quantitative in silico model for the in vivo delivery of genome editors into the developing human infant liver, we identify progenitor targeting, delivery efficiencies, and su

SUBMITTER: Carlson-Stevermer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7722885 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature