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Yougang Zhang

Griffith UniversityORCID 0009-0004-1267-3023Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1 Organism:zebrafish· 1

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NeuroscienceEMBO Molecular MedicinePeer-reviewedDec 15, 2025

Clinical relevance of zebrafish for gene variants testing. Proof-of-principle with SMN1/SMA.

Brett William Stringer, Yougang Zhang, Afsaneh Taghipour‐Sheshdeh…·Jean Giacomotto

The paper uses a zebrafish model to test the pathogenicity of SMN1 variants in SMA patients, showing that two variants were non-pathogenic and avoiding costly treatments.

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zebrafishexperimental assay

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