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Zebrafish: A model vertebrate suitable for the analysis of human genetic disorders
Author(s) -
Ota Satoshi,
Kawahara Atsuo
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
congenital anomalies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-4520
pISSN - 0914-3505
DOI - 10.1111/cga.12040
Subject(s) - zebrafish , transcription activator like effector nuclease , crispr , biology , genome editing , genetic screen , vertebrate , cas9 , genetics , model organism , computational biology , forward genetics , phenotype , effector , mutagenesis , gene , mutant , microbiology and biotechnology
Zebrafish is a popular model vertebrate because of its conservation of a significant number of morphological and physiological processes in vertebrate organogenesis. A number of zebrafish mutants isolated from chemical mutagenesis screens exhibit characterized morphological defects that often resemble the symptoms of human genetic disorders. Recent innovations in genome‐editing technologies, such as transcription activator‐like effector nucleases ( TALEN ) and the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats ( CRISPR )/ C as9 system, enable us to investigate the loss‐of‐function phenotypes of developmentally regulated genes in zebrafish. This review highlights recent advances in reverse genetic technologies for zebrafish and presents possible applications of zebrafish for the study of human genetic disorders.