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MENdel
Deploying MMEJ using MENdel in precision gene editing applications for gene therapy and functional genomics.
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2026.05.15
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Abstract
Gene-editing experiments commonly elicit the error-prone non-homologous end joining for DNA double-strand break (DSB) repair. Microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) can generate more predictable outcomes for functional genomic and somatic therapeutic applications. We compared three DSB repair prediction algorithms - MENTHU, inDelphi, and Lindel - in identifying MMEJ-repaired, homogeneous genotypes (PreMAs) in an independent dataset of 5,885 distinct Cas9-mediated mouse embryonic stem cell DSB repair events. MENTHU correctly identified 46% of all PreMAs available, a ∼2- and ∼60-fold sensitivity increase compared to inDelphi and Lindel, respectively. In contrast, only Lindel correctly predicted predominant single-base insertions. We report the new algorithm MENdel, a combination of MENTHU and Lindel, that achieves the most predictive coverage of homogeneous out-of-frame mutations in this large dataset. We then estimated the frequency of Cas9-targetable homogeneous frameshift-inducing DSBs in vertebrate coding regions for gene discovery using MENdel. 47 out of 54 genes (87%) contained at least one early frameshift-inducing DSB and 49 out of 54 (91%) did so when also considering Cas12a-mediated deletions. We suggest that the use of MENdel helps researchers use MMEJ at scale for reverse genetics screenings and with sufficient intra-gene density rates to be viable for nearly all loss-of-function based gene editing therapeutic applications.
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Deploying MMEJ using MENdel in precision gene editing applications for gene therapy and functional genomics
Deploying MMEJ using MENdel in precision gene editing applications for gene therapy and functional genomicsNUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH2021
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Genes & Genomes
Genetic variation
Genotype and phenotype
Genome annotation
Sequence analysis
Molecular interactions, pathways and networks
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