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A redesign of zinc-finger nucleases reduces off-target cleavage.

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Figure 1: Three approaches for cleaving DNA to increase the efficiency of homologous recombination for gene correction.

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Pingoud, A., Silva, G. Precision genome surgery. Nat Biotechnol 25, 743–744 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt0707-743

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