prickle -mediated epilepsy in flies is a brain-derived neurodevelopmental defect

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21 Oct 2026 0 comments

Damaging DNA variants in PRICKLE genes cause epilepsy from flies to humans. While classic work, primarily in flies, has demonstrated that PRICKLE proteins work with other planar cell polarity proteins to polarize epithelial sheets, the function of PRICKLE proteins in the nervous system is still unclear and may play distinct roles in the nervous system of different organisms. We thus sought to compare and contrast Drosophila prickle with PRICKLE genes in vertebrate systems in order to identify...