Strategy to recreate large DNA changes linked to autism
Derek Tai, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Talkowski Lab since 2013 comments on the lab's most recent Nature Neuroscience paper of which he is first author: "Recently, we developed a new CRISPR approach which can directly target perfectly homologous sequences in the segmental duplications and model the reciprocal dosage imbalances that occur via NAHR mechanisms. [...]