“…We hypothesized that NPPK represents an ideal readthrough target because >90% of the reported patients carry the TGAA nonsense mutation c.796C>T (Hashimoto et al, 2017;Hida et al, 2015;Kubo et al, 2013;Li et al, 2016;Miyauchi et al, 2016;Mizuno et al, 2014;Nakajima et al, 2017;On et al, 2017;Shiohama et al, 2016;Suzuki et al, 2015;Yin et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2016), and the mutant mRNA is likely to escape NMD, as it occurs in the last exon of the gene. The estimated number of NPPK patients carrying c.796C>T is extremely large-at least 0.15 million in Japan and China-because the allele frequency of this mutation is >0.01 in the Japanese and Chinese populations (Kubo et al, 2013), which again makes the mutation a very attractive therapeutic target.…”