Chromothripsis as an on-target consequence of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing
Mitchell L. Leibowitz, Stamatis Papathanasiou, Phillip A. Doerfler, Logan J. Blaine, Lili Sun, Yu Yao, Cheng‐Zhong Zhang, Mitchell J. Weiss, David S. Pellman
This paper shows that CRISPR-Cas9-induced DNA breaks can lead to chromothripsis, a catastrophic chromosomal rearrangement, which is an on-target toxicity in genome editing.
Nature Genetics · Apr 12, 2021Peer-reviewedGenetics