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. 2017 Jul 27;58(1):4–16. doi: 10.1093/ilar/ilw040

Table 1.

Examples of zebrafish models for human diseases

Zebrafish models Human disease
Fish Experimental conditions
A. Zebrafish models based on alteration of disease associated orthologous genes
dmdta222a/ta222a [ZDB-FISH-150901-14025] Generic control [ZECO:0000102] Muscular dystrophy (Li and Arner 2015) [DOID:9884]
rpl11hi3820bTg/hi3820bTg [ZDB-FISH-150901-8506] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Diamond-Blackfan anemia (Danilova et al. 2014; Y Zhang et al. 2014; Jia et al. 2013) [DOID:1339]
AB + MO1-rps19 [ZDB-FISH-150901-25995] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103]
WT + CRISPR1-mecp2 [ZDB-FISH-151014-40] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Rett syndrome (Gao et al. 2015) [DOID:1206]
col6a1ama605003/ama605003 (TU) [ZDB-FISH-151110-7] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Bethlem myopathy (Radev et al. 2015) [DOID:0050663]
cfap53hu10478/hu10478 [ZDB-FISH-160504-2] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Visceral heterotaxy (Noël et al. 2015) [DOID:0050545]
slc16a2biu4/biu4 [ZDB-FISH-150901-10550] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (Zada et al. 2014) [DOID:0050631]
B. Zebrafish models based on gene misexpression
tp53zdf1/zdf1; Tg(mitfa:Hsa.BRAF_V600E)czt13Tg [ZDB-FISH-150901-14943] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Melanoma (Yen et al. 2013) [DOID:1909]
Tg(mitfa:mitfa), Tg(rag2:Hsa.MYC-ERT2)zdf14Tg; Tg(lck:lck-EGFP)cz2Tg [ZDB-FISH-150901-17819] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Acute T cell leukemia (Ridges et al. 2012) [DOID:5603]
Tg(spi1b:LOXP-EGFP-LOXP-Hsa.NUP98-Hsa.HOXA9)hsi1Tg; Tg(hsp70l:Cre)zdf13Tg [ZDB-FISH-150901-25078] Heat shock [ZECO:0000166] Myeloid leukemia (Forrester et al. 2011) [DOID:8692]
Tg(fabp10a:edn1,myl7:EGFP)nn1005Tg [ZDB-FISH-150901-2358] Standard conditions [ZECO:0000103] Hepatocellular carcinoma (Lu et al. 2014) [DOID:684]
C. Zebrafish models based on exposure to disease causing conditions
AB [ZDB-GENO-960809-7] Chemical treatment: ethanol [ZECO:0000111: CHEBI:16236] Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (Fernandes et al. 2015) [DOID:0050696]
WT [ZDB-GENO-030619-2] Increased food availability [ZECO:0000247] Obesity (Montalbano et al. 2015) [DOID:9970]
WT [ZDB-GENO-030619-2] Bacterial treatment: Mycobacterium marinum [ZECO:0000106: NCBITaxon:1781] Tuberculosis (Sridevi et al. 2014) [DOID:399]
mitfaw2/w2; roya9/a9 [ZDB-FISH-150901-6638] Viral treatment: influenza virus [ZECO:0000110: NCBITaxon:11309] Influenza (Gabor et al. 2014) [DOID:8469]
D. Zebrafish models based on disease phenotype similarities
TU [ZDB-GENO-990623-3] Chemical treatment: pentetrazol [ZECO:0000111: CHEBI:34910] Epilepsy (Siebel et al. 2015) [DOID:1826]
WT [ZDB-GENO-030619-2] Chemical treatment: oxidopamine [ZECO:0000111: CHEBI:78741] Parkinson’s disease (Panula et al. 2006) [DOID:14330]
WT [ZDB-GENO-030619-2] Chemical treatment: N-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium [ZECO:0000111: CHEBI:641]
Tg(ins:CFP-NTR)s892Tg [ZDB-FISH-150901-27537] Chemical ablation: insulin secreting cell [ZECO:0000169: ZFA:0009101], chemical treatment: metronidazole [ZECO:0000111: CHEBI:6909] Type 1 diabetes mellitus (Tsuji et al. 2014) [DOID:9744]

Zebrafish models are defined as ‘Fish’ (genotype, background, and STR) and ‘Experimental Conditions’. They are associated with a disease term from the Disease Ontology (DO).