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Clinical manifestations can start at any age and include hepatosplenomegaly, intellectual impairment, and cerebellar ataxia. <jats:italic>NPC1<\/jats:italic> is the most common causal gene, with over 460 different mutations with heterogeneous pathological consequences. We generated a zebrafish NPC1 model by CRISPR\/Cas9 carrying a homozygous mutation in exon 22, which encodes the end of the cysteine-rich luminal loop of the protein. This is the first zebrafish model with a mutation in this gene region, which is frequently involved in the human disease. We observed a high lethality in <jats:italic>npc1<\/jats:italic> mutants, with all larvae dying before reaching the adult stage. <jats:italic>Npc1<\/jats:italic> mutant larvae were smaller than wild type (wt) and their motor function was impaired. We observed vacuolar aggregations positive to cholesterol and sphingomyelin staining in the liver, intestine, renal tubules and cerebral gray matter of mutant larvae. RNAseq comparison between <jats:italic>npc1<\/jats:italic> mutants and controls showed 284 differentially expressed genes, including genes with functions in neurodevelopment, lipid exchange and metabolism, muscle contraction, cytoskeleton, angiogenesis, and hematopoiesis. Lipidomic analysis revealed significant reduction of cholesteryl esters and increase of sphingomyelin in the mutants. Compared to previously available zebrafish models, our model seems to recapitulate better the early onset forms of the NPC disease. 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