Genome-editing technologies for gene and cell therapy

ML Maeder, CA Gersbach - Molecular therapy, 2016 - cell.com
Gene therapy has historically been defined as the addition of new genes to human cells.
However, the recent advent of genome-editing technologies has enabled a new paradigm in …

Leber congenital amaurosis/early-onset severe retinal dystrophy: clinical features, molecular genetics and therapeutic interventions

N Kumaran, AT Moore, RG Weleber… - British journal of …, 2017 - bjo.bmj.com
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and early-onset severe retinal dystrophy (EOSRD) are
both genetically and phenotypically heterogeneous, and characterised clinically by severe …

Gene Editing for CEP290-Associated Retinal Degeneration

EA Pierce, TS Aleman, KT Jayasundera… - … England Journal of …, 2024 - Mass Medical Soc
Background CEP290-associated inherited retinal degeneration causes severe early-onset
vision loss due to pathogenic variants in CEP290. EDIT-101 is a clustered regularly …

Development of a gene-editing approach to restore vision loss in Leber congenital amaurosis type 10

ML Maeder, M Stefanidakis, CJ Wilson, R Baral… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 is a severe retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the
CEP290 gene,. We developed EDIT-101, a candidate genome-editing therapeutic, to …

Identification and correction of mechanisms underlying inherited blindness in human iPSC-derived optic cups

DA Parfitt, A Lane, CM Ramsden, AJF Carr, PM Munro… - Cell stem cell, 2016 - cell.com
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is an inherited retinal dystrophy that causes childhood
blindness. Photoreceptors are especially sensitive to an intronic mutation in the cilia-related …

CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome editing as a therapeutic approach for Leber congenital amaurosis 10

GX Ruan, E Barry, D Yu, M Lukason, SH Cheng… - Molecular therapy, 2017 - cell.com
As the most common subtype of Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), LCA10 is a severe
retinal dystrophy caused by mutations in the CEP290 gene. The most frequent mutation …

In vitro and in vivo rescue of aberrant splicing in CEP290-associated LCA by antisense oligonucleotide delivery

A Garanto, DC Chung, L Duijkers… - Human molecular …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) is a severe disorder resulting in visual impairment
usually starting in the first year of life. The most frequent genetic cause of LCA is an intronic …

Splice-modulating oligonucleotide QR-110 restores CEP290 mRNA and function in human c. 2991+ 1655A> G LCA10 models

K Dulla, M Aguila, A Lane, K Jovanovic… - … Therapy-Nucleic Acids, 2018 - cell.com
Leber congenital amaurosis type 10 (LCA10) is a severe inherited retinal dystrophy
associated with mutations in CEP290. The deep intronic c. 2991+ 1655A> G mutation in …

Using CRISPR-Cas9 to generate gene-corrected autologous iPSCs for the treatment of inherited retinal degeneration

ER Burnight, M Gupta, LA Wiley, KR Anfinson, A Tran… - Molecular Therapy, 2017 - cell.com
Patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) hold great promise for autologous
cell replacement. However, for many inherited diseases, treatment will likely require genetic …

Gene therapy in inherited retinal diseases: an update on current state of the art

A Amato, A Arrigo, E Aragona, MP Manitto… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Gene therapy cannot be yet considered a far perspective, but a tangible
therapeutic option in the field of retinal diseases. Although still confined in experimental …