Modeling of Autism Using Organoid Technology

Hwan Choi, Juhyun Song, Guiyeon Park, Jongpil Kim

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Abstract

Autism is a neurodevelopmental disease caused by multiple mutations during development. However, a suitable disease model to study the molecular pathway of disease onset and progression is not available. Although many studies have used human stem cells such as induced pluripotent stem cells and embryonic stem cells to investigate the disease pathogenesis, these stem cell techniques are limited in their abilities to study the pathology and mechanism of pathogenesis of neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism. Therefore, researchers are focusing on the strengths of three-dimensional (3D) structures mimicking organs, organoids, for modeling autism. In this review, we highlight the advantages of 3D organoid systems to investigate the mechanisms of the pathogenesis of autism. Further, because the onset of autism is determined by genetic background, we suggest the application of the clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9) technique for genome editing in 3D organoid systems to study mutations that cause autism. We propose that 3D organoid systems combined with the CRISPR/Cas9 technique may advance autism research.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)7789-7795
Number of pages7
JournalMolecular Neurobiology
Volume54
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2017

Keywords

  • Autism
  • Clustered regularly interspersed short palindromic repeat-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/Cas9)
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)
  • Organoids

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