Generation of an induced pluripotent stem cell and isogenic control line from a vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (vEDS) patient harboring a pathogenic c.755G>T in the COL3A1 gene

We report the generation and characterization of a collagen III-mutant human iPSC line (JHUi007-A) and an isogenic gene-edited control (JHUi007-A-1). Reprogramming of dermal fibroblasts, obtained from a patient with vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (vEDS) carrying the COL3A1 c.755G>T variant, was performed using integration-free Sendai virus. Isogenic controls were produced by CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. Both lines displayed typical morphologies, expressed stemness factors, formed derivatives of all three germ layers, and maintained a normal karyotype. These lines readily differentiated into vascular smooth muscle cells with cytoskeletal differences between vEDS and control cells, confirming the utility of this resource to study disease processes.