Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

CRISPR-based genome editing in primary human pancreatic islet cells

  • Romina J. Bevacqua,
  • Xiaoqing Dai,
  • Jonathan Y. Lam,
  • Xueying Gu,
  • Mollie S. H. Friedlander,
  • Krissie Tellez,
  • Irene Miguel-Escalada,
  • Silvia Bonàs-Guarch,
  • Goutham Atla,
  • Weichen Zhao,
  • Seung Hyun Kim,
  • Antonia A. Dominguez,
  • Lei S. Qi,
  • Jorge Ferrer,
  • Patrick E. MacDonald,
  • Seung K. Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22651-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The editing of primary human islets could provide insight into diabetes pathogenesis. Here the authors use CRISPR-Cas9 to target regulatory elements associated with T2D susceptibility.