Project

Retinitis pigmentosa: gene discovery and functional analysis through

Code
31524611
Duration
01 January 2011 → 31 December 2013
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Medical systems biology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Medical systems biology
    • Molecular and cell biology
    • Laboratory medicine
    • Medical systems biology
    • Molecular and cell biology
Keywords
zebrafish gene identification retinitis pigmentosa next generation sequencing
 
Project description

The general objective of this project is disease gene discovery in sporadic or autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Specific objectives are: (1) prescreening of all known RP genes using next-generation sequencing (NGS); (2) identification of new disease genes through homozygosity mapping and NGS of candidate regions; (3) in vivo functional analysis of newly identified RP genes in zebrafish.