AAV	Adeno-associated virus
BBB	Blood-brain barrier
BPB	Blood-placental barrier
B6C3F1	Mouse hybrid between C57BL/6 and C3H/H
Cas9	Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated protein-9 nuclease
CAT	Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase
CMV	Cytomegalovirus
CRISPR	Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats
DSBs	Double-stranded breaks
DsRed	Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein
EGFP	Enhanced green fluorescent protein
GFP	Green fluorescent protein
GOI	Gene of interest
gRNA	Guide RNA
HBs	Hepatitis B surface antigen
HBV	Hepatitis B virus
HCM	Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
HGD	Hydrodynamics-based gene delivery
HIV	Human immunodeficiency virus
lacZ	β-Galactosidase
MHC	Myosin heavy chain
MVBs	Multivesicular bodies
NHEJ	Nonhomologous end-joining
NLS	Nuclear location signal
PAM	Protospacer adjacent motif
rAAV	Recombinant adeno-associated virus
RNAi	RNA interference
RNP	Ribonucleoprotein
sFlt-1	Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1
shRNA	Short hairpin RNA
Sry	Sex-determining region Y
ST	Syncytiotrophoblast
TALEN	Transcription activator-like effector nucleases
Tg mouse	Transgenic mouse
THL	Trojan horse liposome
TPFE	Tetra (piperazino) fullerene epoxide
TPGD	Transplacental gene delivery
TPGD-GEF	Transplacental gene delivery (TPGD) for acquiring genome-edited fetuses
VE	Visceral endoderm
VS	Villous stroma
ZFN	Zinc-finger nuclease