Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Identifying regulators of parental imprinting by CRISPR/Cas9 screening in haploid human embryonic stem cells

  • Shiran Bar,
  • Dan Vershkov,
  • Gal Keshet,
  • Elyad Lezmi,
  • Naama Meller,
  • Atilgan Yilmaz,
  • Ofra Yanuka,
  • Malka Nissim-Rafinia,
  • Eran Meshorer,
  • Talia Eldar-Geva,
  • Nissim Benvenisty

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26949-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Genetic imprinting ensures monoallelic gene expression critical for normal embryonic development. Here the authors take advantage of human haploid parthenogenic embryonic stem cells lacking paternal alleles to identify, by genome-wide screening, factors involved in the regulation of imprinted genes.