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An integrated translational platform to improve the management and outcome of rare heritable connective tissue disease
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Loss of the ubiquitin-associated domain of sqstm1/p62 in zebrafish causes a phenotype resembling Paget’s disease of bone
Yentl Huybrechts
Raphaël De Ridder
Dylan Bergen
Björn De Samber
Eveline Boudin
Francesca Tonelli
Dries Knapen
Lucia Vergauwen
Dorien Schepers
Evelien Van Dijck
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
CALCIFIED TISSUE INTERNATIONAL
2025
Evaluating variants of uncertain significance in adult zebrafish via prime editing : a proof of concept with a COL1A2 variant
Michiel Vanhooydonck
Sophie Debaenst
Eva Vanbelleghem
Hanna De Saffel
Delfien Syx
Patrick Sips
Paul Coucke
Andy Willaert
Bert Callewaert
A1
Journal Article
in
BMC MEDICAL GENOMICS
2025
ADAMTS2 : more than a procollagen N-proteinase
Ruben Vanlerberghe
Alain Colige
Anne-Marie Malfait
Delfien Syx
Fransiska Malfait
A1
Journal Article
in
GENES & DISEASES
2025
Autosomal dominant transmission reframes reproductive counseling in Myhre syndrome : a novel family and literature review
Maggie R. Brand
Eva Vanbelleghem
Alison C. Kay
Anne Goriely
Senol Demir
Peter J. Hulick
Breanne Prindeville
Ashley W. Wong
Bert Callewaert
Angela E. Lin
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS PART C-SEMINARS IN MEDICAL GENETICS
2025
RNA-sequencing unveils FLT4 splice site variants in variable congenital heart disease
Maxim Verlee
Erika D'haenens
Laurenz De Cock
Laura Muiño Mosquera
Katya De Groote
Kristof Vandekerckhove
Joseph Panzer
Ellen Roets
Björn Menten
Sofie Symoens
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2025
Prime editing outperforms homology-directed repair as a tool for CRISPR-mediated variant knock-in in zebrafish
Michiel Vanhooydonck
Elyne De Neef
Hanna De Saffel
Annekatrien Boel
Andy Willaert
Bert Callewaert
Kathleen Claes
A1
Journal Article
in
LAB ANIMAL
2025
Modeling thoracic aortic genetic variants in the zebrafish : useful for predicting clinical pathogenicity?
Andrew Prendergast
Mary B. Sheppard
Jakub K. Famulski
Stefania Nicoli
Sandip Mukherjee
Patrick Sips
John A. Elefteriades
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE
2025
Gonadal mosaicism as a rare inheritance pattern in recessive genodermatoses : report of two cases with pseudoxanthoma elasticum and literature review
Lisa Dangreau
Mohammad Jakir Hosen
Julie De Zaeytijd
Bart Leroy
Paul Coucke
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
CURRENT ISSUES IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
2024
Rapidly progressive peripheral artery disease : importance of oligogenic inheritance and functional validation
Lisa Dangreau
Yvonne Nitschke
Frank Rutsch
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
CIRCULATION-GENOMIC AND PRECISION MEDICINE
2024
Interpretation and classification of FBN1 variants associated with Marfan syndrome : consensus recommendations from the Clinical Genome Resource’s FBN1 variant curation expert panel
A. Drackley
C. Somerville
P. Arnaud
L. M. Baudhuin
N. Hanna
M. L. Kluge
K. Kotzer
C. Boileau
L. Bronicki
Bert Callewaert
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
GENOME MEDICINE
2024
Pathogenic mechanisms in genetically defined Ehlers-Danlos syndromes
Delfien Syx
Fransiska Malfait
A1
Journal Article
in
TRENDS IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE
2024
Bmpr1aa modulates the severity of the skeletal phenotype in an fkbp10-deficient Bruck syndrome zebrafish model
Tamara Jarayseh
Sophie Debaenst
Hanna De Saffel
Toon Rosseel
Mauro Alessio Milazzo
Jan Willem Bek
David M Hudson
Filip Van Nieuwerburgh
Yannick Gansemans
Iván Josipovic
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
2024
A systematic review and cross-database analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms underlying hip morphology and osteoarthritis reveals shared mechanisms
Marlies Verleyen
Yukun He
Arne Burssens
Marta Guerreiro Santana Ramos Da Silva
Bert Callewaert
Emmanuel Audenaert
A1
Journal Article
in
OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE
2024
Reduced capsaicin-induced mechanical allodynia and neuronal responses in the dorsal root ganglion in the presence of protein tyrosine phosphatase non-receptor type 6 overexpression
Robin Vroman
Shingo Ishihara
Spencer Fullam
Matthew J Wood
Natalie S Adamczyk
Nolan Lomeli
Fransiska Malfait
Anne-Marie Malfait
Rachel E Miller
Adrienn Markovics
A1
Journal Article
in
MOLECULAR PAIN
2024
From corrosion casting to virtual dissection : contrast‐enhanced vascular imaging using hafnium oxide nanocrystals
Eline Goossens
Loren Deblock
Lisa Caboor
Dietger Van den Eynden
Iván Josipovic
Pablo Reyes Isaacura
Elizaveta Maksimova
Matthias Van Impe
Anne Bonnin
Patrick Segers
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
SMALL METHODS
2024
Sensory profiling in classical Ehlers-Danlos syndrome : a case-control study revealing pain characteristics, somatosensory changes, and impaired pain modulation
Marlies Colman
Delfien Syx
Inge De Wandele
Lies Rombaut
Deborah Wille
Zoë Malfait
Mira Meeus
Anne-Marie Malfait
Jessica Van Oosterwijck
Fransiska Malfait
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF PAIN
2023
Application of an automated analysis framework for pulsed-wave Doppler cardiac ultrasound measurements to generate reference data in adult zebrafish
Matthias Van Impe
Lisa Caboor
Violette Deleeuw
Karo De Rycke
Michiel Vanhooydonck
Julie De Backer
Patrick Segers
Patrick Sips
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
2023
Analysis of matrisome expression patterns in murine and human dorsal root ganglia
Robin Vroman
Rahel S. Hunter
Matthew J. Wood
Olivia C. Davis
Zoë Malfait
Dale S. George
Dongjun Ren
Diana Tavares-Ferreira
Theodore J. Price
Richard J. Miller
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN MOLECULAR NEUROSCIENCE
2023
Syntaxin 18 defects in human and zebrafish unravel key roles in early cartilage and bone development
Brecht Guillemyn
Hanna De Saffel
Jan Willem Bek
Piyanoot Tapaneeyaphan
Adelbert De Clercq
Tamara Jarayseh
Sophie Debaenst
Andy Willaert
Riet De Rycke
Peter H. Byers
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
2023
Unraveling the role of TGFβ signaling in thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection using Fbn1 mutant mouse models
Violette Deleeuw
Eric Carlson
Marjolijn Renard
Keith D. Zientek
Phillip A. Wilmarth
Ashok P. Reddy
Elise C. Manalo
Sara F. Tufa
Douglas R. Keene
Margie Olbinado
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
MATRIX BIOLOGY
2023
HRAS-related epidermal nevus syndromes : expansion of the spectrum with first branchial arch defects
Aude Beyens
Charlotte Lietaer
Kathleen Claes
Elfride De Baere
Marleen Goeteyn
Bob Lerut
Hannes Syryn
Olivier Vanakker
Joni Van der Meulen
Lieve Vanwalleghem
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
CLINICAL GENETICS
2023
Inorganic pyrophosphate plasma levels are decreased in pseudoxanthoma elasticum patients and heterozygous carriers but do not correlate with the genotype or phenotype
Matthias Van Gils
Justin Depauw
Paul Coucke
Shari Aerts
Shana Verschuere
Lukas Nollet
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
2023
A tapt1 knock-out zebrafish line with aberrant lens development and impaired vision models human early-onset cataract
Tamara Jarayseh
Brecht Guillemyn
Hanna De Saffel
Jan Willem Bek
Delfien Syx
Sofie Symoens
Yannick Gansemans
Filip Van Nieuwerburgh
Sujatha Jagadeesh
Jayarekha Raja
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
HUMAN GENETICS
2023
The Abcc6a knockout zebrafish model as a novel tool for drug screening for pseudoxanthoma elasticum
Matthias Van Gils
Andy Willaert
Paul Coucke
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN PHARMACOLOGY
2022
EMILIN1 deficiency causes arterial tortuosity with osteopenia and connects impaired elastogenesis with defective collagen fibrillogenesis
Christin S. Adamo
Aude Beyens
Alvise Schiavinato
Douglas R. Keene
Sara F. Tufa
Matthias Morgelin
Jurgen Brinckmann
Takako Sasaki
Anja Niehoff
Maren Dreiner
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS
2022
Compression fractures and partial phenotype rescue with a low phosphorus diet in the chihuahua zebrafish osteogenesis imperfecta model
Silvia Cotti
Ann Huysseune
Daria Larionova
Wolfgang Koppe
Antonella Forlino
Paul Eckhard Witten
C3
Conference
2022
Kyphoscoliotic Ehlers‐Danlos syndrome caused by pathogenic variants in FKBP14 : further insights into the phenotypic spectrum and pathogenic mechanisms
Marlies Colman
Robin Vroman
Tibbe Dhooge
Zoë Malfait
Sofie Symoens
Biruté Burnyté
Sheela Nampoothiri
Ariana Kariminejad
Fransiska Malfait
Delfien Syx
A1
Journal Article
in
HUMAN MUTATION
2022
Atypical variants in COL1A1 and COL3A1 associated with classical and vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome overlap phenotypes : expanding the clinical phenotype based on additional case reports
Marlies Colman
Marco Castori
Lucia Micale
Marco Ritelli
Marina Colombi
Neeti Ghali
Fleur Van Dijk
Luisa Marsili
Adrienne Weeks
Anthony Vandersteen
et al.
A1
Journal Article
in
CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RHEUMATOLOGY
2022
Editorial : molecular mechanisms of heritable connective tissue disorders
Fransiska Malfait
Antonella Forlino
Gerhard Sengle
Tom Van Agtmael
Editorial material
2022
Compression fractures and partial phenotype rescue with a low phosphorus diet in the chihuahua zebrafish osteogenesis imperfecta model
Silvia Cotti
Ann Huysseune
Daria Larionova
Wolfgang Koppe
Antonella Forlino
Paul Eckhard Witten
A1
Journal Article
in
FRONTIERS IN ENDOCRINOLOGY
2022
Minocycline counteracts ectopic calcification in a murine model of pseudoxanthoma elasticum : a proof-of-concept study
Elise Bouderlique
Lukas Nollet
Emmanuel Letavernier
Olivier Vanakker
A1
Journal Article
in
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
2022
Four decades in the making : collagen III and mechanisms of vascular Ehlers Danlos Syndrome
Ramla Omar
Fransiska Malfait
Tom Van Agtmael
A2
Journal Article
in
MATRIX BIOLOGY PLUS
2021
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