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. 2016 Jun 22;96(3):1093–1126. doi: 10.1152/physrev.00036.2015

Table 5.

Comparison of hiPSC-based disease modeling approaches

Innate Engineered Induced
+ Disease modeled against patients' genetic background ↓Need for patient recruitment Enables modeling of noncongenital conditions
Isogenic disease and control lines
Patient recruitment difficult Time consuming Induced conditions may not accurately recapitulate disease
Nonisogenic disease and control lines Costly
Potential risk for genomic instability

The advantages (+) and disadvantages (−) of innate, induced, and engineered hiPSC-based disease models. ↓, Reduced.