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Exon skipping and dystrophin restoration in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy after systemic phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomer treatment: an open-label, phase 2, dose-escalation study.

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The safety and biochemical efficacy presented show the potential of AVI-4658 to become a disease-modifying drug for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2011-08-13 and is currently open access. It has received 847 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Duchenne muscular dystrophy & Drisapersen.

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Progress and Prospects of Anti-HBV Gene Therapy Development.

TL;DR: A review of recent developments and progress made in the use of gene therapy against hepatitis B virus has emerged as an attractive alternative that may result in complete clearance of HBV in infected patients.
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Ameliorating pathogenesis by removing an exon containing a missense mutation: a potential exon-skipping therapy for laminopathies

TL;DR: In this paper, the therapeutic potential of exon skipping for laminopathies arising from missense mutations has been investigated, and it was shown that removing an in-frame exon containing a mutation could improve pathogenic phenotypes.
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Exon-Skipping Therapy: A Roadblock, Detour, or Bump in the Road?

TL;DR: Exon skipping is a promising therapeutic for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, but the road to drug approvals is foggy and may require more early-stage derisking and regulatory guidance.
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Precision gene editing technology and applications in nephrology.

TL;DR: This technology and the challenges and potential of genome editing in the kidney are discussed and zinc-finger nucleases, transcription activator-like effectors and CRISPR systems are powerful tools that are enabling new applications of genome engineering in diverse systems.
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A divalent interaction between HPS1 and HPS4 is required for the formation of the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelle complex-3 (BLOC-3).

TL;DR: The identification of the interacting regions in HPS1 and HPS4 required for the formation of this complex is reported, representing an important first step in the identification of domains responsible for the biogenesis of lysosome-related organelles.
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Dystrophin: The protein product of the duchenne muscular dystrophy locus

TL;DR: The identification of the mdx mouse as an animal model for DMD has important implications with regard to the etiology of the lethal DMD phenotype, and the protein dystrophin is named because of its identification via the isolation of the Duchenne muscular dystrophy locus.
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Local Dystrophin Restoration with Antisense Oligonucleotide PRO051

TL;DR: Intramuscular injection of antisense oligonucleotide PRO051 induced dystrophin synthesis in four patients with Duchenne's muscular dystrophy who had suitable mutations, suggesting that further studies might be feasible.
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