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Zinc finger nucleases for targeted mutagenesis and repair of the sickle-cell disease mutation: An in-silico study

BACKGROUND: Sickle cell disease (or simply, SCD) is an inherited hemoglobinopathy which is mostly prevalent among persons of African descent. SCD results from a monogenic (Hemoglobin, beta) point-mutation (substitution of the base Adenine with Thymine at position six) that leads to replacement of th...

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Autor principal: Wayengera, Misaki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407482/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22583379
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2326-12-5