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 …

ATP2B2 de novo variants as a cause of variable neurodevelopmental disorders that feature dystonia, ataxia, intellectual disability, behavioral symptoms, and seizures

E Poggio, L Barazzuol, A Salmaso, C Milani… - Genetics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose ATP2B2 encodes the variant-constrained plasma-membrane calcium-transporting
ATPase-2, expressed in sensory ear cells and specialized neurons. ATP2B2/Atp2b2 …

De novo variants predicting haploinsufficiency for DIP2C are associated with expressive speech delay

T Ha, A Morgan, MN Bartos, K Beatty… - American Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The disconnected (disco)‐interacting protein 2 (DIP2) gene was first identified in D.
melanogaster and contains a DNA methyltransferase‐associated protein 1 (DMAP1) binding …

[HTML][HTML] Loss-of-function of the Zinc Finger Homeobox 4 (ZFHX4) gene underlies a neurodevelopmental disorder

PBM Del Rocío, MP Bralo, M Vanhooydonck… - medRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Abstract 8q21. 11 microdeletions encompassing the gene encoding transcription factor
ZFHX4, have previously been associated by us with a syndromic form of intellectual …

Loss-of-function of the Zinc Finger Homeobox 4 (ZFHX4) gene underlies a neurodevelopmental disorder

MR Pérez Baca, M Palomares Bralo, M Vanhooydonck… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
8q21. 11 microdeletions encompassing the gene encoding transcription factor ZFHX4, have
previously been associated by us with a syndromic form of intellectual disability, hypotonia …

The ZMYND8 chromatin factor protects cardiomyocyte identity and function in the mouse heart

A Kekūpaʻa Knutson, A Avelar, RV Shohet - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Appropriate gene expression within cardiomyocytes is coordinated by chromatin factors and
is essential for heart function. We investigated the role of the chromatin reader ZMYND8 in …

Characterization of Mechanisms for Epigenetic and Transcriptomic Regulation within Human Brain Cells

J Wang - 2024 - unsworks.unsw.edu.au
This thesis investigates the mechanisms of gene expression regulation in the human brain,
and in particular the role of transcriptional regulation implicated in intellectual disability, and …