The first zebrafish model of LAMA2-MD was described by Currie and colleagues (Hall et al., 2007) and was identified through complementation studies between dystrophic mutants generated through an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea (ENU) mutagenesis screen at the University of Tubingen, Germany (Granato et al., 1996). Here, LAMA2 is linked to Menkes disease.