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From multiallele fish to nonstandard environments, how ZFIN assigns phenotypes, human disease models, and gene expression annotations to genes.

ABSTRACT: Danio rerio is a model organism used to investigate vertebrate development. Manipulation of the zebrafish genome and resultant gene products by mutation or targeted knockdown has made the zebrafish a good system for investigating gene function, providing a resource to investigate genetic contributors to phenotype and human disease. Phenotypic outcomes can be the result of gene mutation, targeted knockdown of gene products, manipulation of experimental conditions, or any combination thereof. Zebrafish have been used in various genetic and chemical screens to identify genetic and environmental contributors to phenotype and disease outcomes. The Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN, zfin.org) is the central repository for genetic, genomic, and phenotypic data that result from research using D. rerio. Here we describe how ZFIN annotates phenotype, expression, and disease model data across various experimental designs, how we computationally determine wild-type gene expression, the phenotypic gene, and how these results allow us to propagate gene expression, phenotype, and disease model data to the correct gene, or gene related entity.

SUBMITTER: Bradford YM

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158835 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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From multiallele fish to nonstandard environments, how ZFIN assigns phenotypes, human disease models, and gene expression annotations to genes.

Bradford Yvonne M YM Van Slyke Ceri E CE Howe Douglas G DG Fashena David D Frazer Ken K Martin Ryan R Paddock Holly H Pich Christian C Ramachandran Sridhar S Ruzicka Leyla L Singer Amy A Taylor Ryan R Tseng Wei-Chia WC Westerfield Monte M

Genetics 20230501 1

Danio rerio is a model organism used to investigate vertebrate development. Manipulation of the zebrafish genome and resultant gene products by mutation or targeted knockdown has made the zebrafish a good system for investigating gene function, providing a resource to investigate genetic contributors to phenotype and human disease. Phenotypic outcomes can be the result of gene mutation, targeted knockdown of gene products, manipulation of experimental conditions, or any combination thereof. Zebr ...[more]

PMID: 36864549

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Project description:The Zebrafish Model Organism Database (ZFIN; https://zfin.org) is the central resource for genetic, genomic, and phenotypic data for zebrafish (Danio rerio) research. ZFIN continuously assesses trends in zebrafish research, adding new data types and providing data repositories and tools that members of the research community can use to navigate data. The many research advantages and flexibility of manipulation of zebrafish have made them an increasingly attractive animal to model and study human disease.To facilitate disease-related research, ZFIN developed support to provide human disease information as well as annotation of zebrafish models of human disease. Human disease term pages at ZFIN provide information about disease names, synonyms, and references to other databases as well as a list of publications reporting studies of human diseases in which zebrafish were used. Zebrafish orthologs of human genes that are implicated in human disease etiology are routinely studied to provide an understanding of the molecular basis of disease. Therefore, a list of human genes involved in the disease with their corresponding zebrafish ortholog is displayed on the disease page, with links to additional information regarding the genes and existing mutations. Studying human disease often requires the use of models that recapitulate some or all of the pathologies observed in human diseases. Access to information regarding existing and published models can be critical, because they provide a tractable way to gain insight into the phenotypic outcomes of the disease. ZFIN annotates zebrafish models of human disease and supports retrieval of these published models by listing zebrafish models on the disease term page as well as by providing search interfaces and data download files to access the data. The improvements ZFIN has made to annotate, display, and search data related to human disease, especially zebrafish models for disease and disease-associated gene information, should be helpful to researchers and clinicians considering the use of zebrafish to study human disease.

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From multiallele fish to nonstandard environments, how ZFIN assigns phenotypes, human disease models, and gene expression annotations to genes.

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From multiallele fish to nonstandard environments, how ZFIN assigns phenotypes, human disease models, and gene expression annotations to genes.

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