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Lifting the lid on Pandora's box: the Bardet-Biedl syndrome.
Current opinion in genetics & development - 1 Jun 2005
Beales Philip L
Abstract excerpt
Progress in understanding the cause of the once obscure condition Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) has been rapid since 2003. That BBS is now known to be a disorder of cilia and basal body function has been facilitated by the recent discovery of the novel genes BBS3, 5, 7 and 8 (eight BBS genes in total) and confirmed by the generation of genetic model systems in mice, Chlamydomonas, Caenorhabditis elegans and...
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