Journal
GENOME
Volume 50, Issue 7, Pages 689-692Publisher
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING, NRC RESEARCH PRESS
DOI: 10.1139/G07-045
Keywords
sea anemone; Cnidaria; BRCA2; peptidase; sialidase; lipofuscinosis; neuraminidase deficiency; breast cancer
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Invertebrate animals have provided important insights into the mechanisms of, and treatment for, numerous human diseases. A surprisingly high proportion of genes underlying human disease are present in the genome of a simple, evolutionarily basal invertebrate animal, Nematostella vectensis, including some genes that are absent in established invertebrate model organisms. This, together with the laboratory tractability and regenerative capability of N. vectensis, recommends the species as an important new experimental model for the study of genes underlying human disease.
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