Functional assessment of the "two-hit" model for neurodevelopmental defects in Drosophila and X. laevis
Lucilla Pizzo, Micaela C. Lasser, Tanzeen Yusuff, Matthew Jensen, Phoebe Ingraham, Emily Huber, Mayanglambam Dhruba Singh, Connor Monahan, Janani S. Iyer, Inshya Desai, Siddharth Karthikeyan, Dagny J. Gould, Sneha Yennawar, Alexis T. Weiner, Vijay Kumar Pounraja, , Santhosh Girirajan
The paper tests a 'two-hit' model for neurodevelopmental defects by examining interactions between 16p12.1 homologs and 'second-hit' genes in Drosophila and Xenopus laevis, finding genetic interactions in 63% of tested pairs.
PLoS Genetics · Apr 5, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics