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Genome Editing for the Understanding and Treatment of Cardiomyopathies
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: Received: 28 December 2019 / Approved: 29 December 2019 / Online: 29 December 2019 (13:41:48 CET)
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Nguyen, Q.; Lim, K.R.Q.; Yokota, T. Genome Editing for the Understanding and Treatment of Inherited Cardiomyopathies. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 733. Nguyen, Q.; Lim, K.R.Q.; Yokota, T. Genome Editing for the Understanding and Treatment of Inherited Cardiomyopathies. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 733.
Abstract
Cardiomyopathies are diseases of heart muscle, a significant percentage of which are genetic in origin. Cardiomyopathies can be classified as dilated, hypertrophic, restrictive, arrhythmogenic right ventricular or left ventricular non-compaction, although mixed morphologies are possible. A subset of neuromuscular disorders, notably Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies, are also characterized by cardiomyopathy aside from skeletal myopathy. The global burden of cardiomyopathies is certainly high, necessitating further research and novel therapies. Genome editing tools, which include zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs), transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) and clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) systems have emerged as increasingly important technologies in studying this group of cardiovascular disorders. In this review, we discuss the applications of genome editing in the understanding and treatment of cardiomyopathy. We also describe recent advances in genome editing that may help improve these applications, and some future prospects for genome editing in cardiomyopathy treatment.
Keywords
dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM); hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM); restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM); arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC); left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy (LVNC); Duchenne muscular dystrophy; dystrophin; genome editing; CRISPR/Cas9; Cpf1 (Cas12a)
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
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