PUBLICATION
Zebrafish Models of Rare Hereditary Pediatric Diseases
- Authors
- Varga, M., Ralbovszki, D., Balogh, E., Hamar, R., Keszthelyi, M., Tory, K.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180526-2
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 6(2): (Review)
- Registered Authors
- Varga, Máté
- Keywords
- drug screening, rare disease models, zebrafish
- MeSH Terms
- none
- PubMed
- 29789451 Full text @ Diseases
Citation
Varga, M., Ralbovszki, D., Balogh, E., Hamar, R., Keszthelyi, M., Tory, K. (2018) Zebrafish Models of Rare Hereditary Pediatric Diseases. Diseases (Basel, Switzerland). 6(2).
Abstract
Recent advances in sequencing technologies have made it significantly easier to find the genetic roots of rare hereditary pediatric diseases. These novel methods are not panaceas, however, and they often give ambiguous results, highlighting multiple possible causative mutations in affected patients. Furthermore, even when the mapping results are unambiguous, the affected gene might be of unknown function. In these cases, understanding how a particular genotype can result in a phenotype also needs carefully designed experimental work. Model organism genetics can offer a straightforward experimental setup for hypothesis testing. Containing orthologs for over 80% of the genes involved in human diseases, zebrafish (Danio rerio) has emerged as one of the top disease models over the past decade. A plethora of genetic tools makes it easy to create mutations in almost any gene of the zebrafish genome and these mutant strains can be used in high-throughput preclinical screens for active molecules. As this small vertebrate species offers several other advantages as well, its popularity in biomedical research is bound to increase, with "aquarium to bedside" drug development pipelines taking a more prevalent role in the near future.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping