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Steffen, Leta Suzanne
Email: leta_steffen@student.hms.harvard.edu
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Address: Kunkel Lab Genetics Program Children's Hospital Boston 300 Longwood Avenue, Fegan 5 Boston, MA 02115 USA
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PUBLICATIONS
Guyon, J.R., Goswami, J., Jun, S.J., Thorne, M., Howell, M., Pusack, T., Kawahara, G., Steffen, L.S., Galdzicki, M., and Kunkel, L.M. (2009) Genetic isolation and characterization of a splicing mutant of zebrafish dystrophin. Human molecular genetics. 18(1):202-211
Steffen, L.S., Guyon, J.R., Vogel, E.D., Howell, M.H., Zhou, Y., Weber, G.J., Zon, L.I., and Kunkel, L.M. (2007) The zebrafish runzel muscular dystrophy is linked to the titin gene. Developmental Biology. 309(2):180-192
Steffen, L.S., Guyon, J.R., Vogel, E.D., Beltre, R., Pusack, T.J., Zhou, Y., Zon, L.I., and Kunkel, L.M. (2007) Zebrafish orthologs of human muscular dystrophy genes. BMC Genomics. 8(1):79
Guyon, J.R., Steffen, L.S., Howell, M.H., Pusack, T.J., Lawrence, C., and Kunkel, L.M. (2007) Modeling human muscle disease in zebrafish. Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular basis of disease. 1772(2):205-215
Kunkel, L.M., Bachrach, E., Bennett, R.R., Guyon, J., and Steffen, L. (2006) Diagnosis and cell-based therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy in humans, mice, and zebrafish. Journal of Human Genetics. 51(5):397-406
Steffen, L.S. (2006) Zebrafish as a model of muscular dystrophies and insights into titin's role in sarcomerogenesis. Ph.D. Thesis. :01/01/2006

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