Zebrafish as an animal model for biomedical research

TY Choi, TI Choi, YR Lee, SK Choe… - Experimental & Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Zebrafish have several advantages compared to other vertebrate models used in modeling
human diseases, particularly for large-scale genetic mutant and therapeutic compound …

Integrating non-mammalian model organisms in the diagnosis of rare genetic diseases in humans

S Yamamoto, O Kanca, MF Wangler… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Next-generation sequencing technology has rapidly accelerated the discovery of genetic
variants of interest in individuals with rare diseases. However, showing that these variants …

Zebrafish knockout of Down syndrome gene, DYRK1A, shows social impairments relevant to autism

OH Kim, HJ Cho, E Han, TI Hong, K Ariyasiri, JH Choi… - Molecular Autism, 2017 - Springer
Background DYRK1A maps to the Down syndrome critical region at 21q22. Mutations in this
kinase-encoding gene have been reported to cause microcephaly associated with either …

Mutations in FAM50A suggest that Armfield XLID syndrome is a spliceosomopathy

YR Lee, K Khan, K Armfield-Uhas, S Srikanth… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Intellectual disability (ID) is a heterogeneous clinical entity and includes an excess of males
who harbor variants on the X-chromosome (XLID). We report rare FAM50A missense …

[HTML][HTML] Innate color preference of zebrafish and its use in behavioral analyses

JS Park, JH Ryu, TI Choi, YK Bae, S Lee, HJ Kang… - Molecules and cells, 2016 - Elsevier
Although innate color preference of motile organisms may provide clues to behavioral
biases, it has remained a longstanding question. In this study, we investigated innate color …

SAAFEC: predicting the effect of single point mutations on protein folding free energy using a knowledge-modified MM/PBSA approach

I Getov, M Petukh, E Alexov - International journal of molecular sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
Folding free energy is an important biophysical characteristic of proteins that reflects the
overall stability of the 3D structure of macromolecules. Changes in the amino acid …

[HTML][HTML] Early-life exposure to the organophosphorus flame-retardant tris (1, 3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate induces delayed neurotoxicity associated with DNA …

R Li, W Guo, L Lei, L Zhang, Y Liu, J Han, L Chen… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Early-life exposure to toxicants could affect health outcomes in adulthood. We determined
the effects of early-life exposure to the organophosphorus flame-retardant tris (1, 3-dichloro …

Impairments of cerebellar structure and function in a zebrafish KO of neuropsychiatric risk gene znf536

TY Kim, A Roychaudhury, HT Kim, TI Choi… - Translational …, 2024 - nature.com
Genetic variants in ZNF536 contribute to the risk for neuropsychiatric disorders such as
schizophrenia, autism, and others. The role of this putative transcriptional repressor in brain …

Early-Life Benzo[a]Pyrene Exposure Causes Neurodegenerative Syndromes in Adult Zebrafish (Danio rerio) and the Mechanism Involved

D Gao, C Wang, Z Xi, Y Zhou, Y Wang… - Toxicological …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing recognition of the importance of early-life environmental exposures in
health disorders at later-life stages. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether early-life …

Deleterious de novo variants of X‐linked ZC4H2 in females cause a variable phenotype with neurogenic arthrogryposis multiplex congenita

SGM Frints, F Hennig, R Colombo… - Human …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogenic variants in the X‐linked gene ZC4H2, which encodes a zinc‐finger protein,
cause an infrequently described syndromic form of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita …