Nature Communications (Apr 2018)

Somatic genome editing with the RCAS-TVA-CRISPR-Cas9 system for precision tumor modeling

  • Barbara Oldrini,
  • Álvaro Curiel-García,
  • Carolina Marques,
  • Veronica Matia,
  • Özge Uluçkan,
  • Osvaldo Graña-Castro,
  • Raul Torres-Ruiz,
  • Sandra Rodriguez-Perales,
  • Jason T. Huse,
  • Massimo Squatrito

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03731-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Accurate recapitulation of human disease in animal models requires generation of complex and heterogeneous genetic variation. Here the authors combine RCAS-TVA with CRISPR-Cas9 to generate mouse models of cancer.