What have we learned (or expect to) from analysis of murine genetic models related to substance use disorders?

G Peltz, Y Tan - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The tremendous public health problem created by substance use disorders (SUDs) presents
a major opportunity for mouse genetics. Inbred mouse strains exhibit substantial and …

An automated multi-modal graph-based pipeline for mouse genetic discovery

Z Fang, G Peltz - Bioinformatics, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Our ability to identify causative genetic factors for mouse genetic models of
human diseases and biomedical traits has been limited by the difficulties associated with …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic Discovery Enabled by A Large Language Model

T Tu, Z Fang, Z Cheng, S Spasic, A Palepu… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used in many areas of medicine, and recently large
language models (LLMs) have shown potential utility for clinical applications. However …

The effect of population structure on murine genome-wide association studies

M Wang, Z Fang, B Yoo, G Bejerano, G Peltz - Frontiers in genetics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ability to use genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for genetic discovery depends
upon our ability to distinguish true causative from false positive association signals …

Compendious survey of protein tandem repeats in inbred mouse strains

A Arslan - BMC Genomic Data, 2022 - Springer
Short tandem repeats (STRs) play a crucial role in genetic diseases. However, classic
disease models such as inbred mice lack such genome wide data in public domain. The …

Neuron Navigator 1 Regulates Learning, Memory, and the Response to Multiple Potentially Addictive Drugs

JR Bagley, Y Tan, W Zhu, Z Cheng, S Takeda, Z Fang… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Genetic variation accounts for much of the risk for developing a substance use disorder
(SUD). Inbred mouse strains exhibit substantial and heritable differences in the extent of …

In silico candidate variant and gene identification using inbred mouse strains

M Munz, M Khodaygani, Z Aherrahrou, H Busch… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Mice are the most widely used animal model to study genotype to phenotype relationships.
Inbred mice are genetically identical, which eliminates genetic heterogeneity and makes …

Protein Cargo Assessment through Residue Alterations

A Arslan - bioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Motivation The transport of proteins plays a crucial role in the cellular phenotype. Changes
in the protein targeting sequence can result in missing protein delivery to the right …