Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Microhomology-assisted scarless genome editing in human iPSCs

  • Shin-Il Kim,
  • Tomoko Matsumoto,
  • Harunobu Kagawa,
  • Michiko Nakamura,
  • Ryoko Hirohata,
  • Ayano Ueno,
  • Maki Ohishi,
  • Tetsushi Sakuma,
  • Tomoyoshi Soga,
  • Takashi Yamamoto,
  • Knut Woltjen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03044-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Positive selection for gene targeting is a common and reliable method to generate isogenic disease models in human pluripotent stem cells. Here, the authors present engineered selection markers which achieve scarless excision by CRISPR-Cas9 and microhomology mediated end-joining.