Abstract
In view of the controversy related to the generation of off-target mutations by gene editing approaches, we tested the specificity of TALENs by disrupting a multi-copy gene family using only one pair of TALENS. We show here that TALENS do display a high level of specificity by simultaneously knocking out the function of the three genes that encode for H2A.B.3. This represents the first described knockout of this histone variant.
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