Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Biallelic and gene-wide genomic substitution for endogenous intron and retroelement mutagenesis in human cells

  • Tomoyuki Ohno,
  • Taichi Akase,
  • Shunya Kono,
  • Hikaru Kurasawa,
  • Takuto Takashima,
  • Shinya Kaneko,
  • Yasunori Aizawa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31982-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Functional annotation of the vast noncoding landscape of the diploid human genome still remains a major challenge of genomic research. Here the authors present a scarless, biallelic, and 100 kb-scale mutagenesis in human cells that uncovers functional significances of endogenous introns and retrotransposons in the chromatin context.