Network biology concepts in complex disease comorbidities

JX Hu, CE Thomas, S Brunak - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The co-occurrence of diseases can inform the underlying network biology of shared and
multifunctional genes and pathways. In addition, comorbidities help to elucidate the effects …

[HTML][HTML] Primary cilia biogenesis and associated retinal ciliopathies

HY Chen, RA Kelley, T Li, A Swaroop - Seminars in cell & developmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The primary cilium is a ubiquitous microtubule-based organelle that senses external
environment and modulates diverse signaling pathways in different cell types and tissues …

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 …

ABCA4 midigenes reveal the full splice spectrum of all reported noncanonical splice site variants in Stargardt disease

R Sangermano, M Khan, SS Cornelis… - Genome …, 2018 - genome.cshlp.org
Stargardt disease is caused by variants in the ABCA4 gene, a significant part of which are
noncanonical splice site (NCSS) variants. In case a gene of interest is not expressed in …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Primary cilium-mediated retinal pigment epithelium maturation is disrupted in ciliopathy patient cells

HL May-Simera, Q Wan, BS Jha, J Hartford, V Khristov… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Primary cilia are sensory organelles that protrude from the cell membrane. Defects in the
primary cilium cause ciliopathy disorders, with retinal degeneration as a prominent …

In vitro modeling using ciliopathy-patient-derived cells reveals distinct cilia dysfunctions caused by CEP290 mutations

H Shimada, Q Lu, C Insinna-Kettenhofen… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Mutations in CEP290, a transition zone protein in primary cilia, cause diverse ciliopathies,
including Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA) and Joubert-syndrome and related disorders …

UDiTaS™, a genome editing detection method for indels and genome rearrangements

G Giannoukos, DM Ciulla, E Marco, HS Abdulkerim… - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Understanding the diversity of repair outcomes after introducing a genomic cut
is essential for realizing the therapeutic potential of genomic editing technologies. Targeted …

Recessive and dominant de novo ITPR1 mutations cause Gillespie syndrome

S Gerber, KJ Alzayady, L Burglen… - The American Journal of …, 2016 - cell.com
Gillespie syndrome (GS) is a rare variant form of aniridia characterized by non-progressive
cerebellar ataxia, intellectual disability, and iris hypoplasia. Unlike the more common …