Marwa Zafarullah, 2017 Summer Scholar.

Marwa Zafarullah

University of California, Davis
Graduate Student

Marwa Zafarullah was a 2017 Randi J. Hagerman Summer Scholars Research Awards recipient. At the time, she was a graduate student in Integrative Genetics and Genomics at the University of California Davis. She worked with Dr. Flora Tassone at the Mind Institute and investigated the underlying molecular mechanism contributing to the pathogenesis of FXTAS.

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CRISPR, a New Genome Editing Tool: Could it Work for Fragile X-Associated Syndromes?

December 13, 2017
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This report, from Summer Scholar Marwa Zafarullah, is based on a study to help us better understand the impact of the CGG repeats on the different clinical premutation phenotypes and the molecular mechanisms behind the development of Fragile X-associated disorders.

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