Rice fish model of a rare metabolic disorder
A mutation from a human patient with a rare metabolic disorder has been replicated in the Japanese rice fish. Researchers from the Centre for Organismal Studies Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a fish model to study disorders caused by a deficiency in the process of adding sugar molecules to proteins. These findings, published in the journal Development, provide a system to study the causes of complex metabolic disorders in humans.
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