Zhu JY, Fu Y, Nettleton M, Richman A, Han Z. High throughput in vivo functional validation of candidate congenital heart disease genes in Drosophila. Elife. 2017 Jan 13;6. pii: e22617. PMID: 28084990.
From the abstract: "... We developed a Drosophila-based functional system to screen candidate disease genes identified from Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) patients. 134 genes were tested in the Drosophila heart using RNAi-based gene silencing. Quantitative analyses of multiple cardiac phenotypes demonstrated essential structural, functional, and developmental roles for more than 70 genes ... We also demonstrated the use of Drosophila to evaluate cardiac phenotypes resulting from specific, patient-derived alleles of candidate disease genes. ... This approach has the potential to facilitate development of precision medicine approaches for CHD and other diseases associated with genetic factors."
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