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Mutation-disease link masked in zebrafish

Disparity in methods complicates quest to figure out gene’s job

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GENE SCENE  Zebrafish experiments that didn’t go as planned may help researchers find genes that can fill in for others in a pinch.

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By Tina Hesman Saey

- More than 2 years ago

Zebrafish can find a way to compensate for a mutated gene, but artificial methods of inactivating the same gene are not so readily overcome, a new study suggests.