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. 2020 Feb 17;24(1):8–16. doi: 10.1080/19768354.2020.1726462

Table 1. Generation and treatment of animal models of human diseases using genome editing methods.

Species Target gene Disease Technique Editing Method   Reference
Generatiof disease animal models
Mouse Fah Tyrosinemia Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Li et al. (2015)
Rag1, IL2RgammaC Immunodeficient
Notch3 Lateral meningocele syndrome Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Canalis et al. (2018)
ATP6V1H Osteoporosis Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Duan et al. (2016)
Bril Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Rauch et al. (2018)
Sox9 Acampomelic campomelic dysplasia (ACD), Campomelic dysplasia (CD) Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Mochizuki et al. (2018)
Dystropin Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Electroporation Cytidine Base editor 3 (BE3) RNP Kim et al. (2017)
p53, Lkb1, KRAS Cancer Intratracheal injection SpCas9 AAV Platt et al. (2014)
Rat Tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) Parikinson’s disease (PD) Intracranial injection SpCas9 AAV Back et al. (2019)
pig Huntingtin (HTT) Huntington’s disease (HD) Somatic cell nuclear transfer SpCas9 plasmid Yan et al. (2018)
Parkin, Pink1 Parikinson’s disease (PD) Somatic cell nuclear transfer SpCas9 plasmid Zhou et al. (2015)
Monkey Dystropin Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Chen et al. (2015)
Dog Myostatin Muscle hypertrophy Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Zou et al. (2015)
Rabbit Myostatin Muscle hypertrophy Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Lv et al. (2016)
Dystropin Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Sui et al. (2018)
PAX4 Diabetes mellitus (DM) Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Xu et al. (2018)
Treatment of disease animal models
Mouse F8 Hemophilia A Patient-Derived iPSCs correction and transplantion SpCas9 Plasmid Park et al. (2015)
F9 Hemophilia B Intravenous injection SaCas9 AAV Ohmori et al. (2017)
Dystropin Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Intramuscular injection, SpCas9 AAV Tabebordbar et al. (2016)
Intraperitoneal injection, SaCas9 AAV Nelson et al. (2016)
Intravenous injection, SpCas9 AAV Long et al. (2016)
Retro-orbital injection SpCas9 AAV Bengtsson et al. (2017)
Intramuscular injection SpCas9 RNP with gold nanoparticle Li et al. (2015)
Intramuscular injection Adenine Base
Editor (ABE)
AAV Ryu et al. (2018)
SOD1 Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) Intravenous injection SaCas9 AAV Gaj et al. (2017)
Fah Tyrosinemia Intravenous injection(Hydrodynamic injection) SpCas9 Plasmid Yin et al. (2014)
Intravenous injection SpCas9 AAV Yin et al. (2016)
Intravenous injection
(Hydrodynamic injection)
Adenine Base
Editor (ABE)
Plasmid Song et al. (2019)
LTR, Gag, Pol HIV-1/AIDS Intravenous injection, SaCas9 AAV Kaminski et al. (2016)
Intravaginal injection, Yin et al. (2017)
Retro-orbital injection  
Huntingtin (HTT) Huntington’s disease (HD) Stereitactic injection SpCas9 AAV Monteys et al. (2017)
Vegfr2 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) Intravitreal injection SpCas9 AAV Huang et al. (2017)
Vegfr Subretinal injection SpCas9 RNP with liposome Kim et al. (2017)
Vegfa Intravitreal injection CjCas9 AAV Kim et al. (2017)
Hif1a Intravitreal injection LbCpf1 AAV Koo et al. (2018)
Bace1 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) Intraacranial injection SpCas9 RNP with peptide Park et al. (2019)
Rat Rho Retinal dystropy Subretinal injection SpCas9 plasmid Bakondi et al. (2016)
Dog Dystropin Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) Intramuscular injection, Intravenous injection SpCas9 AAV Amoasii et al. (2018)
Pig Alb Liver failure, traumatic shock Microinjection SpCas9 mRNA Peng et al. (2015)