Safe and Efficient Silencing with a Pol II, but Not a Pol lII, Promoter Expressing an Artificial miRNA Targeting Human Huntingtin

• Autores principales: Edith L. Pfister (Autor), Kathryn O. Chase (Autor), Huaming Sun (Autor), Lori A. Kennington (Autor), Faith Conroy (Autor), Emily Johnson (Autor), Rachael Miller (Autor), Florie Borel (Autor), Neil Aronin (Autor), Christian Mueller (Autor)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: Elsevier, 2017-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Materias: article
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Huntington's disease is a devastating, incurable neurodegenerative disease affecting up to 12 per 100,000 patients worldwide. The disease is caused by a mutation in the Huntingtin (Htt) gene. There is interest in reducing mutant Huntingtin by targeting it at the mRNA level, but the maximum tole...