Volume 23, No 12, Dec 2013
ISSN: 1001-0602
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018
impact factor 17.848*
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Volume 23 Issue 12, December 2013: 1345-1346
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
How to correct chromosomal trisomy
Christine M Disteche1
1Departments of Pathology and Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle WA98115, USA
Correspondence: Christine Disteche(cdistech@u.washington.edu)
Trisomy 21 in human causes Down syndrome, a common chromosome disorder with devastating phenotypes ranging from early death in utero to intellectual disability together with an array of physical anomalies and late-onset diseases. In a recent study published in Nature, Jeanne Lawrence and her colleagues restored normal gene expression in trisomy 21 cells by silencing the extra chromosome using XIST, the non-coding RNA that normally silences one X chromosome in females; this improved growth and differentiation of neural cells, which offers hope that some deleterious effects of the trisomy could be reversed to improve this incurable disease.
10.1038/cr.2013.135
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