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Dilek Çolak

Cornell UniversityORCID 0000-0001-6485-8768Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:human· 1 Organism:mouse· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-exome sequencing· 1 Organism:zebrafish· 1

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NeurosciencebioRxivPreprintNov 18, 2025

Astrocytic Nonsense-mediated mRNA decay regulates calcium signaling to support synapse function and influence anxiety-like behavior

Pablo J. Lituma, Aykut Deveci, Estíbaliz Barrio-Alonso…·Dilek Çolak

This study shows that NMD in astrocytes regulates calcium signaling and synapse function, affecting anxiety-like behavior in mice.

DOI 10.1101/2025.11.18.689044

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GeneticsActa NeuropathologicaPeer-reviewedDec 9, 2019

Loss of UGP2 in brain leads to a severe epileptic encephalopathy, emphasizing that bi-allelic isoform specific start-loss mutations of essential genes can cause genetic diseases

Elena Perenthaler, Anita Nikoncuk, Soheil Yousefi…·Tahsin Stefan Barakat

The paper identifies a recurrent start codon mutation in UGP2 causing a severe epileptic encephalopathy, showing that isoform-specific expression loss of an essential gene can lead to disease.

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