Phenotypic screening models for rapid diagnosis of genetic variants and discovery of personalized therapeutics

CE Hopkins, T Brock, TR Caulfield… - Molecular aspects of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Precision medicine strives for highly individualized treatments for disease under the notion
that each individual's unique genetic makeup and environmental exposures imprints upon …

Genetically engineered zebrafish as models of skeletal development and regeneration

K Henke, TF D'Juan, X Niu, JM Kraus, JL Galloway… - Bone, 2023 - Elsevier
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are aquatic vertebrates with significant homology to their terrestrial
counterparts. While zebrafish have a centuries-long track record in developmental and …

Bone mineral density loci specific to the skull portray potential pleiotropic effects on craniosynostosis

C Medina-Gomez, BH Mullin, A Chesi… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Skull bone mineral density (SK-BMD) provides a suitable trait for the discovery of key genes
in bone biology, particularly to intramembranous ossification, not captured at other skeletal …

[HTML][HTML] Disruption of the foxe1 gene in zebrafish reveals conserved functions in development of the craniofacial skeleton and the thyroid

ST Raterman, JW Von Den Hoff, S Dijkstra… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Mutations in the FOXE1 gene are implicated in cleft palate and thyroid dysgenesis in
humans. To investigate whether zebrafish could provide meaningful insights into the …

Intermediate cells of in vitro cellular reprogramming and in vivo tissue regeneration require desmoplakin

J Ha, BS Kim, B Min, J Nam, JG Lee, M Lee… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Amphibians and fish show considerable regeneration potential via dedifferentiation of
somatic cells into blastemal cells. In terms of dedifferentiation, in vitro cellular …

Extracellular and intracellular effects of bioactive glass nanoparticles on osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells and bone regeneration in …

L Meng, P Zhao, Y Jiang, J You, Z Xu, K Yu… - Acta Biomaterialia, 2024 - Elsevier
Bioactive glass nanoparticles (BGNs) are well-recognized multifunctional biomaterials for
bone tissue regeneration due to their capability to stimulate various cellular processes …

Perspective of the GEMSTONE consortium on current and future approaches to functional validation for skeletal genetic disease using cellular, molecular and animal …

M Rauner, I Foessl, MM Formosa, E Kague… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The availability of large human datasets for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and
the advancement of sequencing technologies have boosted the identification of genetic …

Functional validation of osteoporosis genetic findings using small fish models

E Kague, D Karasik - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The advancement of human genomics has revolutionized our understanding of the genetic
architecture of many skeletal diseases, including osteoporosis. However, interpreting results …

[HTML][HTML] The genetic overlap between osteoporosis and craniosynostosis

E Kague, C Medina-Gomez, SA Boyadjiev… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Osteoporosis is the most prevalent bone condition in the ageing population. This systemic
disease is characterized by microarchitectural deterioration of bone, leading to increased …

From multiallele fish to nonstandard environments, how ZFIN assigns phenotypes, human disease models, and gene expression annotations to genes

YM Bradford, CE Van Slyke, DG Howe, D Fashena… - Genetics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Danio rerio is a model organism used to investigate vertebrate development. Manipulation
of the zebrafish genome and resultant gene products by mutation or targeted knockdown …