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On target? Tracing zinc-finger-nuclease specificity

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In two independent studies, researchers experimentally test the cleavage specificity of zinc-finger nucleases across the genome.

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Figure 1: Strategies to determine nuclease off-target sites.

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Mussolino, C., Cathomen, T. On target? Tracing zinc-finger-nuclease specificity. Nat Methods 8, 725–726 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth.1680

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