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Mengqi Ma

Baylor College of MedicineORCID 0000-0001-7345-575XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Genetic & Genomic Medicine· 2 Developmental Biology· 1

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Organism:Drosophila· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1

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Hugo Jozef BelleniD· 2 shared Shenzhao LuiD· 2 shared Shinya YamamotoiD· 2 shared Xueyang PaniD· 2 shared Aimee Allworth· 1 shared Albert N. Alvarez· 1 shared Barbara MandrianiiD· 1 shared Beatriz EstradaiD· 1 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicineeLifePeer-reviewedAug 27, 2025

Heterozygous variants in PLCG1 affect hearing, vision, cardiac, and immune function

Mengqi Ma, Yiming Zheng, Mingxi Deng…·Hugo Jozef Bellen

The paper reports seven individuals with PLCG1 variants causing hearing, vision, cardiac, and immune issues, and shows these variants have gain-of-function effects in Drosophila models.

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintJul 17, 2023

Allelic strengths of encephalopathy-associated UBA5 variants correlate between in vivo and in vitro assays.

Xueyang Pan, Albert N. Alvarez, Mengqi Ma…·Hugo Jozef Bellen

The paper correlates allelic strengths of UBA5 variants in vivo and in vitro, classifying them into mild, intermediate, and severe based on functional assays.

DOI 10.1101/2023.07.17.23292782

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Developmental BiologyPLoS GeneticsPeer-reviewedSep 27, 2018

Analysis of the role of Nidogen/entactin in basement membrane assembly and morphogenesis in Drosophila

Jianli Dai, Beatriz Estrada, Sofie Jacobs…·Maria Dolores Martin-Bermudo

This paper investigates the role of Nidogen/entactin in basement membrane assembly and morphogenesis in Drosophila, showing tissue-specific requirements and functional domains of Ndg.

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