A hPSC-based platform to discover gene-environment interactions that impact human β-cell and dopamine neuron survival

Diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's manifest based on interactions between genes and environment. Here, the authors find among a panel of cell types that propargite, a common pesticide, induces pancreatic β-cell and dopamine neuron death and that loss of the gene GSTT1 confers hypersensit...

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Main Authors: Ting Zhou, Tae Wan Kim, Chi Nok Chong, Lei Tan, Sadaf Amin, Zohreh Sadat Badieyan, Suranjit Mukherjee, Zaniar Ghazizadeh, Hui Zeng, Min Guo, Miguel Crespo, Tuo Zhang, Reyn Kenyon, Christopher L. Robinson, Effie Apostolou, Hui Wang, Jenny Zhaoying Xiang, Todd Evans, Lorenz Studer, Shuibing Chen
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/73d56573bdd642718c8b15d27f8152fb
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