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The interplay of genetic and environmental factors in craniofacial morphogenesis: holoprosencephaly and the role of cholesterol
1 Mar 2003
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Cyclopia, the paradigmatic "face [that] predicts the brain" in severe holoprosencephaly (HPE) (DeMyer et al., 1964), has been recognized since ancient times. Descriptive embryologists and pathologists have noted the continuum of defective separation of the forebrain and loss of central nervous system (CNS) midline structures for more than a century. It has been recognized more recently that inhibitors of...
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