by Boston Medical Center Overview of CRISPRi platform to interrogate COPD GWAS genes. (A) Gene editing strategy to generate inducible CRISPRi iPSC/ESC lines with an NKX2-1–GFP and/or SFTPC-tdTomato reporter. (B) Schematic representation of dox-inducible dCas9-KRAB expression and lentiviral-delivered gRNA targeted to the transcriptional start site (TSS) of genes of interest (GOI) to mediate knockdown. (C)...