Establishment of Homozygote Mutant Human Embryonic Stem Cells by Parthenogenesis.

We report on the derivation of a diploid 46(XX) human embryonic stem cell (HESC) line that is homozygous for the common deletion associated with Spinal muscular atrophy type 1 (SMA) from a pathenogenetic embryo. By characterizing the methylation status of three different imprinted loci (MEST, SNRPN...

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Main Authors: Silvina Epsztejn-Litman, Yaara Cohen-Hadad, Shira Aharoni, Gheona Altarescu, Paul Renbaum, Ephrat Levy-Lahad, Oshrat Schonberger, Talia Eldar-Geva, Sharon Zeligson, Rachel Eiges
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4608834?pdf=render