Using fish to illuminate the architecture of inherited disease

Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 02:30 in Biology & Nature

A research team has developed a way to simultaneously look at the effects of 125 mutations occurring on 14 different genes. They used zebrafish as a model to analyze the function of every known mutation in an inherited syndrome called BBS, Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

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