Search Results - "Joynt, Anya T"
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Capitalizing on the heterogeneous effects of CFTR nonsense and frameshift variants to inform therapeutic strategy for cystic fibrosis
Published in PLoS genetics (16-11-2018)“…CFTR modulators have revolutionized the treatment of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) by improving the function of existing protein. Unfortunately, almost…”
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Evaluation of both exonic and intronic variants for effects on RNA splicing allows for accurate assessment of the effectiveness of precision therapies
Published in PLoS genetics (21-10-2020)“…Elucidating the functional consequence of molecular defects underlying genetic diseases enables appropriate design of therapeutic options. Treatment of cystic…”
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Protospacer modification improves base editing of a canonical splice site variant and recovery of CFTR function in human airway epithelial cells
Published in Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids (12-09-2023)“…Canonical splice site variants affecting the 5′ GT and 3′ AG nucleotides of introns result in severe missplicing and account for about 10% of disease-causing…”
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Genetics of Cystic Fibrosis: Clinical Implications
Published in Clinics in chest medicine (01-12-2022)“…Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multiorgan disease caused by a wide variety of mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene. As…”
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Functional Assays Are Essential for Interpretation of Missense Variants Associated with Variable Expressivity
Published in American journal of human genetics (07-06-2018)“…Missense DNA variants have variable effects upon protein function. Consequently, interpreting their pathogenicity is challenging, especially when they are…”
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Correlating Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator Function with Clinical Features to Inform Precision Treatment of Cystic Fibrosis
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-05-2019)“…The advent of precision treatment for cystic fibrosis using small-molecule therapeutics has created a need to estimate potential clinical improvements…”
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Use of adenine base editing and homology-independent targeted integration strategies to correct the cystic fibrosis causing variant, W1282X
Published in Human molecular genetics (17-11-2023)“…Abstract Small molecule drugs known as modulators can treat ~90% of people with cystic fibrosis (CF), but do not work for premature termination codon variants…”
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Increasing intracellular dNTP levels improves prime editing efficiency
Published in Nature biotechnology (25-09-2024)“…In primary cell types, intracellular deoxynucleotide triphosphate (dNTP) levels are tightly regulated in a cell cycle-dependent manner. We report that prime…”
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Residual function of cystic fibrosis mutants predicts response to small molecule CFTR modulators
Published in JCI insight (26-07-2018)“…Treatment of individuals with cystic fibrosis (CF) has been transformed by small molecule therapies that target select pathogenic variants in the CF…”
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Characterization of an unbalanced translocation causing 3q28qter duplication and 10q26.2qter deletion in a patient with global developmental delay and self-injury
Published in Cold Spring Harbor molecular case studies (01-12-2020)“…Chromosomal structural variation can cause severe neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric phenotypes. Here we present a nonverbal female adolescent with severe…”
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Genetics of Cystic Fibrosis
Published in Clinics in chest medicine (01-12-2022)“…Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a multiorgan disease caused by a wide variety of mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene. As…”
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