Review Article

Cellular Reprogramming, Genome Editing, and Alternative CRISPR Cas9 Technologies for Precise Gene Therapy of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Table 2

Summary of papers utilizing various CRISPR-Cas9 strategies to target DMD mutations in patient-derived cells.

StrategyTarget cellDMD typeGenome editing targetDeletion sizeRef.

Mono or multiexon deletionMyoblastΔEx48–50Ex51
Ex45–55
336 kbp[50]
Multiexon deletioniPSCΔEx46–51
ΔEx46-47
Dup ex50
Ex45–55530 kbp
670 kbp
725 kbp
[12]
Exon deletionMyoblastΔEx48–50
ΔEx45–52
Ex51
Ex44–54
Ex53
[49]
Exon deletionmdx mice (in vivo)Nonsense mut in Ex23Ex23~0.5 kbp[52]
Exon deletionmdx mice (in vivo)Nonsense mut in Ex23Ex23~1.2 kbp[51]
Exon deletionmdx mice (in vivo)Nonsense mut in Ex23Ex23~0.3 kbp[53]
Exon skippingiPSCΔEx44Ex4518 bp[13]
Exon skippingMyoblastΔEx48–50
ΔEx45–52
Ex51
Ex53
[49]
Frame shiftingiPSCΔEx44Ex452 bp insertion[13]
Frame shiftingMyoblastΔEx48–50
ΔEx45–52
Ex51
Ex53
[49]
Frame shifting and exon deletionMyoblastΔEx51–53Ex50
Ex54
>160 kbp[57]
Exon knock-iniPSCΔEx44Ex45[13]
Exon knock-in and exon deletionmdx mice (in vivo)Nonsense mut in Ex53Ex52-53
Ex53
[55]