Nature Communications (Jan 2021)

Accelerating functional gene discovery in osteoarthritis

  • Natalie C. Butterfield,
  • Katherine F. Curry,
  • Julia Steinberg,
  • Hannah Dewhurst,
  • Davide Komla-Ebri,
  • Naila S. Mannan,
  • Anne-Tounsia Adoum,
  • Victoria D. Leitch,
  • John G. Logan,
  • Julian A. Waung,
  • Elena Ghirardello,
  • Lorraine Southam,
  • Scott E. Youlten,
  • J. Mark Wilkinson,
  • Elizabeth A. McAninch,
  • Valerie E. Vancollie,
  • Fiona Kussy,
  • Jacqueline K. White,
  • Christopher J. Lelliott,
  • David J. Adams,
  • Richard Jacques,
  • Antonio C. Bianco,
  • Alan Boyde,
  • Eleftheria Zeggini,
  • Peter I. Croucher,
  • Graham R. Williams,
  • J. H. Duncan Bassett

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20761-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Osteoarthritis is a chronic, heritable disease with no available treatment. Here, the authors show that a validated, rapid-throughput joint phenotyping pipeline detects osteoarthritis in the mouse knee following surgical provocation, in aging and after single gene deletion or point mutation.