Genome editing and the next generation of antiviral therapy

Human Genetics

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1071-1082

  Stone, Daniel ^a   Niyonzima, Nixon ^a,b   Jerome, Keith R ^a,b  

^a USA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; HOMING ENDONUCLEASE; TAL EFFECTOR NUCLEASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZINC FINGER NUCLEASE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CRISPR CAS SYSTEM; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOME EDITING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS; HUMAN; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS; JC VIRUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WART VIRUS; CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEAT; GENE EDITING; VIRUS DISEASES;

CLUSTERED REGULARLY INTERSPACED SHORT PALINDROMIC REPEATS; GENE EDITING; HUMANS; VIRUS DISEASES;

EID: 84976293053     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-016-1686-2     Document Type: Review

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