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    Gene replacement‐Alzheimer's disease (GR‐AD): Modeling the genetics of human dementias in mice
    (Wiley, 2024) Benzow, Kellie; Karanjeet, Kul; Oblak, Adrian L.; Carter, Gregory W.; Sasner, Michael; Koob, Michael D.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
    Introduction: Genetic studies conducted over the past four decades have provided us with a detailed catalog of genes that play critical roles in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and related dementias (ADRDs). Despite this progress, as a field we have had only limited success in incorporating this rich complexity of human AD/ADRD genetics findings into our animal models of these diseases. Our primary goal for the gene replacement (GR)-AD project is to develop mouse lines that model the genetics of AD/ADRD as closely as possible. Methods: To do this, we are generating mouse lines in which the genes of interest are precisely and completely replaced in the mouse genome by their full human orthologs. Results: Each model set consists of a control line with a wild-type human allele and variant lines that precisely match the human genomic sequence in the control line except for a high-impact pathogenic mutation or risk variant.