Youssef A. Kousa

This paper develops a humanized mouse model of prenatal Zika infection and shows it mimics human phenotypes, including disrupted neural stem cells and brain injuries.

This paper reviews genetic factors influencing prenatal brain injury from Zika virus, identifying 23 genes, 6 maternal and 17 fetal, that modulate susceptibility to neurological outcomes.

This study identifies long non-coding RNAs involved in Zika virus's oncolytic effect on glioblastoma multiforme through transcriptomic analysis and validation in cell lines.

The PING Consortium builds a genomic data repository to study genetic modifiers of prenatal viral infections' effects on brain development and neurodevelopmental outcomes.